# Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, Section 194: Remedy against persons quitting before payment of rates.


If any person quit or be about to quit any rateable property before he has paid the rates then payable by him in respect thereof, and do not pay the same to the commissioners or their collector, on demand, any justice having jurisdiction where such person resides or his goods are found may summon such person to appear before him at a time mentioned in the summons, to show cause why the rates should not be paid, and if no sufficient cause for the nonpayment of such rates be shown accordingly, the same shall be levied by distress, and such justice shall issue his warrant accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/194 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-194
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