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Cases in which application for distraint may be made. - Where any debt or outstanding demand is due to a registered society from any member, past member or estate of deceased member or is due to a registered society which is duly authorised by the Registrar under any of the provisions of 37/46 sub-section (1) of Section 16 of this Act to grant loans to non-members, from any person who is not a member of a registered society or from the estate of such person if he is dead the society may, in addition to any other remedy to which it is entitled by law, present an application to the Registrar requesting him to recover the debt or outstanding demand by distraining, while in the possession of the defaulter:- (1) any crops or other products of the earth standing or ungathered on the holding of the defaulter; (2) any crops or other products of the earth which have been grown on the holding of the defaulter and have been reaped or gathered and are deposited on the holding or on a threshing floor or place for treading out grain whether in the fields or within a homestead,