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In cases of distress for rent a tender of the amount and costs before sale shall be sufficient to stay proceedings.
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11. In every case of distress for rent a tender of the rent in arrear and of the charges of such distress at any time before the commencement of the sale of the property distrained shall be sufficient to stay the proceedings on such distress, and to entitle the person distrained upon to a return of the property so distrained; and the party whose goods shall be distrained shall be at liberty to plead such tender in bar to any avowry or cognizance, and shall be entitled to recover damages in an action on the case against the party by whom or by whose agent or bailiff the goods so distrained shall be withheld after such tender; and for the purposes of this Act the bailiff appointed in writing by the known agent or receiver of any landlord, or of the person substantially and beneficially entitled to the rent for which the distress shall be made, shall be deemed to be the bailiff of such landlord or person so entitled.
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