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Districtio

Districtio, a distress; a distraint.

Metropolitan Police Magistrates

special jurisdiction to settle disputes about wages for labour on the Thames, to deal with cases of oppressive distraint for small rents, to order delivery to the owner of goods unlawfully detained up to 15l. value, and

Replevin

to restore it if the right be adjudged against him; after which the distrainer may keep it in distraint subject to the law of distress. It is a general rule that whoever brings replevin ought to have

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