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Warrants to be executed in any part of the United Kingdom, upon endorsement by a justice of the peace for the place in which the same shall be executed.
No action shall be brought against any justice for endorsing warrant; but actions may be brought against the commissioners or justices granting the original warrant.
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92. Where any such warrant as aforesaid shall be granted, and cannot be executed by reason that sufficient distress or that the person or persons against whom the same shall have been granted cannot be found within the limits of the jurisdiction of the commissioners or justices in which such warrant shall have been issued, it shall be lawful for any one or more of the justices of the peace for any other county, shire, division, city, town, or place within the United Kingdom, and such justice or justices is and are hereby respectively authorized and required, to endorse his or their name or names respectively upon such warrant; and such warrant and endorsement thereon shall be a sufficient authority to the officer or officers of excise to whom such warrant shall be directed, or having the execution thereof, to execute the same in such other county, shire, division, city, town, or place, and to levy as aforesaid the penalty and penalties, or sum and sums of money, for which such warrant shall have been granted, or so much thereof as may not have been before paid, upon the goods and chattels of and belonging to the person or persons against whom such warrant shall have been granted which shall be found within the jurisdiction of the justice or justices endorsing such warrant, or to arrest and convey such person or persons to the common gaol or house of correction of the county, shire, division, city, town, or place where such warrant shall have been executed, there to remain until delivered, as by this Act is before directed: Provided always, that no action of trespass or false imprisonment, nor any information or indictment, or other prosecution, shall be brought, commenced, or prosecuted against any justice or justices of the peace respectively for or by reason of his or their having granted subsidiary warrants, or endorsed any warrant, in pursuance and under the directions of this Act, in execution of any judgment, but it shall be lawful for any person or persons to bring or prosecute his, her, or their action or suit against the commissioners or justices respectively by whom the original warrant in execution of such judgment shall have beeen granted, in the same manner as such person or persons might have done if this Act had not been made.
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