Excise Management Act, 1827

Justices shall grant warrants for the sale of goods condemned, or for levy of penalties, on judgments to be enforced by them.

86. Where any judgment is[1] by this Act required to be enforced and executed by the justices of the peace (the same not having been appealed against, or if appealed against, having been affirmed by the court of appeal,) shall be for the condemnation of any goods, commodities, or chattels seized as forfeited, it shall be lawful for such justices of the peace, and they are hereby authorized and required, to apply the money which shall have been so deposited as aforesaid in satisfaction of such judgment, and if the same shall not be sufficient to satisfy such judgment, to award and grant a warrant or warrants under their hands, to any officer or officers of excise, for the sale of such goods, commodities, or chattels which they respectively shall have condemned; and where the judgment to be so enforced and executed shall be for any penalty or penalties, or for any sum or sums of money to which such penalty or penalties shall have been mitigated, it shall be lawful for such justices of the peace, and they are hereby authorized and required, to award and grant a warrant or warrants under their hands to any officer or officers of excise, authorizing such officer or officers to levy the penalty or penalties, or sum or sums of money, so adjudged, or so much thereof as shall not have been so satisfied as aforesaid, upon the goods and chattels of such person or persons so convicted, and either to detain and keep such goods and chattels in the house or place where the same shall have been found, or to remove the same to the next office of excise.

[1 So in Parliament Roll.]