The court authorized and enabled upon inquiry to give restitution of possession unto tenants of any estate of freehold of their lands or tenements which shall be entered upon with force or from them withholden by force shall have the like and the same authority and ability, upon indictment of such forcible entries or forcible withholdings before them duly found, to give like restitution of possession unto tenants for terms of years of lands or tenements by them so holden which shall be entered upon by force or holden from them by force.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-2434; 1952 Code Section 10-2434; 1942 Code Section 892; 1932 Code Section 892; Civ. P. '22 Section 840; Civ. C. '12 Section 4071; Civ. C. '02 Section 2970; G. S. 2297; R. S. 2430; 21 J. 1 c. 15; 1712 (2) 445; 1972 (57) 2535.