text:  The landlord _can at any time distrain_ for his rent; what object then would he have in incurring expense and encountering delay to procure a decree which when obtained would _only restrict his former power_? All this does he know; and yet he quotes the number of processes issued by the most litigious people on earth against each other as a proof of the tyranny of the landlords and as the fruitful source of poverty and crime