VERB
- legally take something in place of a debt payment
- levy a distress on
- confiscate by distress
How To Use distrain In A Sentence
- _Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
- But I'm sorry for those who have had goods distrained. One Corpse Too Many
- Every man shall have liberty to replevy his Cattell or goods impounded, distrained, seised, or extended, unless it be upon execution after Judgement, and in payment of fines. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
- Having distrained upon the plaintiff's goods, the inventory prepared fell short of being meticulous.
- Who come upon us to distrain -- we pay them back in blows. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
- After the premises were abandoned, distraint was impossible.
- [39] A landlord requires no such warrant -- he can distrain without any authority. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
- The people's court, when investigating and verifying the evidence, may conduct inquest and inspection, effect distraint , make expert evaluation and inquiry, and freeze.
- Where they have not distrainable property, which is occasionally the case, they never fly, but submit to the known punishment, and go patiently to prison. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3
- Obviously I do not support the idea of untrained and unsanctioned bailifs restraining or even distraining. Middle Classes Tell Cam: Sod Off, We're In It For The Money