Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
Every person having rent in arrears and due upon any demise lease or contract may seize and secure any sheaves and cocks of corn or corn loose or in the straw or hay lying or being in any barn or granary or upon any hovel stack or rick or otherwise upon any part of the land or ground charged with such rent; and may lock up or detain the same in the place where the same is found for or in the nature of a distress until the same is replevied upon security given as hereinafter provided; and in default of replevying the same within the time hereinafter provided, may sell the same, so as nevertheless such corn, grain, or hay so distrained as aforesaid is not removed by the person distraining to the damage of the owner thereof out of the place where the same is found and seized but is kept there (as impounded) until the same is replevied or sold.