Miller v. West

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Any person who may have rent due may, by himself, his agent or attorney, make application to a justice of the peace in the county where the debtor may reside or where his property may be found, and obtain a distress warrant for the sum claimed to be due for rent, on the oath of the party, his agent or attorney, in writing, and the warrant may be levied on any property belonging to the debtor, and the property may be sold as in cases of levy and sale under execution. Code, § 61-402. A distress *299warrant is final process, unless arrested by a…