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Distraint how to be effected.---(1) Before or at the time· when a dtstraint is made unaer section 16, the distrainer shall ~erve or cause to be served upon the defaulter a written demand specifying the amount for wh1ch the q1straint 1s made. (2) The demand shall be dated aiid signed by the distrainc:>r and shall be served upon the defaulter by delivering a copy to him or to some adult male mem her of his family at his usuaJ; place of: abode or'· to his authonsed agent, or when such servlCI;) cannot be· 142 effected by affixing a copy of the demand on some consp1cuous part of his abode and of the land to which the Gehan or mortgage or hypothecation relates