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This guidebook provides a statement of all the relevant law dealing with the following matters: the pre-requisites for the use of ""distress for rent""; the three stages of levying distress - entry, seizure and impounding; the landlord's power of sale; the remedies available to a tenant where an illegal, irregular or excessive distress has been committed; and the effect of the insolvency of a tenant on the availability of distress for rent.