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Definition of Distraint
1. Noun. The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim. "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
Definition of Distraint
1. n. The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Definition of Distraint
1. Noun. (legal) The legal right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant in the event of nonpayment of rent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Distraint
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distraint
Literary usage of Distraint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of French Private Law by Jean Brissaud (1912)
"Origin of distraint upon Immovables. § 424. Land distraint and Its Procedure.
... Difficulties in admitting of distraint uPP.nim:I movables, and even when ..."
2. Ancient laws of Ireland by Ireland, John O'Donovan, Eugene O'Curry, William Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, William Maunsell Hennessy, Robert Atkinson (1901)
"The distraint of a 'nemed' beast, ie iuch of them as are prohibited to be seized
in distraint. An illegal challenge, ie the illegal combat, ie a combat in ..."
3. A Treatise on the Federal Income Tax Under the Act of 1894 by Roger Foster (1895)
"distraint. The Revised Statutes provide that " If any person liable to pay any
taxes neglects or refuses to pay the same within ten days after notice and ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"The author contended that the law of distraint for rent was a violation of the
... Yet at this point in stepped the law of distraint, giving absolute ..."
5. Borough Customs by Mary Bateson (1904)
"And if their rent be again denied after they have made distraint once, and they
cannot ... distraint by a Superior Lord for Service paid to a Mesno Lord. ..."
6. The Constitutional History of England, in Its Origin and Development by William Stubbs (1877)
"And we are thus enabled to explain the frequent orders for the distraint of ...
The distraint of knighthood was both in its origin and distraint of in its ..."
7. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1913)
"Edward I. had applied distraint of distraint of knighthood to £2o freeholders,
... He had no sort of wish to be a knight; but Weston applied distraint of ..."
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