Common Law Procedure Act 1852

CCXIV On Trial of any Ejectment between Landlord and Tenant, Juries to give Damages for mesne Profits down to the Verdict, or to a Day specified therein.

Wherever it shall appear on the Trial of any Ejectment, at the Suit of a Landlord against a Tenant, that such Tenant or his Attorney hath been served with due Notice of Trial, the Judge before whom such Cause shall come on to be tried shall, whether the Defendant shall appear upon such Trial or not, permit the Claimant on the Trial, after Proof of his Right to recover Possession of the whole or of any Part of the Premises mentioned in the Writ in Ejectment, to go into Evidence of the mesne Profits thereof which shall or might have accrued from the Day of the Expiration or Determination of the Tenant's Interest in the same down to the Time of the Verdict given in the Cause, or to some preceding Day to be specially mentioned therein; and the Jury on the Trial finding for the Claimant shall in such Case give their Verdict upon the whole Matter, both as to the Recovery of the whole or any Part of the Premises, and also as to the Amount of the Damages to be paid for such mesne Profits; and in such Case the Landlord shall have Judgment within the Time herein-before provided, not only for the Recovery of Possession and Costs, but also for the mesne Profits found by the Jury: Provided always, that nothing herein-before contained shall be construed to bar any such Landlord from bringing any Action for the mesne Profits which shall accrue from the Verdict, or the Day so specified therein, down to the Day of the Delivery of Possession of the Premises recovered in the Ejectment.