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Impounding distress. Placing cattle, etc., after they have been detrained, in a pound (see that title) or other safe place for custody, which safe place may, by virtue of the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 10, in the case of distress upon a tenant for rent, be on the demised premises themselves. The (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27), obliges the person impounding any animal to provide it with sufficient and wholesome food and water.