Imprisonment in default of distress

Where a distress warrant is issued against the defendant, and a return is made by the police officer charged with the execution of the warrant to the effect that no sufficient goods and chattels of the defendant can be found whereon to levy the distress, the court may order the defendant, on non- payment of the sum of money adjudged to be paid by the order and all costs and charges of the distress and of the commitment, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding the term prescribed by section 55 in respect of a like sum in the scale of imprisonment in default of payment of sums of money 40