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Where any person, not being a defaulter or his surety, claims a right to the property distrained and if the distrainer causes the property to be sold notwithstanding such claim, the claimant may, after establishing his right in a civil court of competent jurisdiction, recover from the distrainer the full value of the property with interest, cost and damages: Provided that no such claim to crops on, or to be gathered from, the land attached in the possession of the defaulter and founded upon a previous sale, mortgage or otherwise shall bar the claim of revenue due from that land. Penalty for forcibly or clandestinely taking away distrained property