Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The court or a judge shall have power if they or the judge see fit to do so upon the application of the plaintiff in any action for the detention of any chattel to order that execution shall issue for the return of the chattel detained without giving the defendant the option of retaining such chattel upon paying the value assessed and if the said chattel can not be found and unless the court or a judge shall otherwise order the sheriff shall distrain the defendant by all the defendant's lands and chattels in the said sheriff's bailiwick till the defendant render such chattel or at the option of the plaintiff that the defendant cause to be made of the defendant's goods the assessed value of such chattel.
(2) However, the plaintiff shall either by the same or a separate writ of execution be entitled to have made of the defendant's goods the damages costs and interest in such action.
(3) Also, the plaintiff may proceed under section 24 anything this section contained notwithstanding.