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Meanings of distraint in English
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1
All such distraint is represented as open robbery and pillage.
2
If distraint were successful, people would refuse to buy the distrained property of their neighbors.
3
Everything has been carried off under distraint for rent, so they said, who came here.
4
When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home, Emma had just gone out.
5
Within the twelvemonth, a distraint was levied upon him for non-payment of moneys that were owing.
6
The honorial court, part of the manor court, heard distraint, also called "distress", issues.
7
No one may drive animals taken by distraint out of the shire where they have been taken.
8
No one may drive animals taken by distraint out of the county where they have been taken.
9
Payment of taxes was enforced by distraint.
10
Law and custom restricted the type of goods and chattels distrainable, and the time and manner of distraint.
11
On the house and property a distraint had been levied for moneys due which had not been paid.
12
The distraint of knighthood, as it was called, began at least as far back as Edward I, 1278.
13
It also heard distraint, also called "distress", issues.
14
A distraint became imminent.
15
One of the most curious features of these attempts at distraint by the middle-class on the people were the Popular Universities.
16
Although distraint is one of the remedies, it is seldom advisable in a landlord to resort to distraining for the recovery of rent.
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Distraint through the time