How To Use Distrain In A Sentence
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_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
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But I'm sorry for those who have had goods distrained.
One Corpse Too Many
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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
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Having distrained upon the plaintiff's goods, the inventory prepared fell short of being meticulous.
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Who come upon us to distrain -- we pay them back in blows.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
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After the premises were abandoned, distraint was impossible.
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[39] A landlord requires no such warrant -- he can distrain without any authority.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
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The people's court, when investigating and verifying the evidence, may conduct inquest and inspection, effect distraint , make expert evaluation and inquiry, and freeze.
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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
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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
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If the original entity has ceased to exist or it exists but it has been written off the corrupted and misappropriated funds as losses, the distraint shall be handed over to the national treasure.
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Article 14: A people's court may seal up, distrain or freeze property jointly possessed by the party subject to enforcement and other parties, and notify the joint owners in a timely manner.
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Counsel then argues that the defendant did not convert because since he did not distrain, he was not the seller of the property.
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Feasts equally as above said or else to distrain on the Ground if she be not paid after fourteen days at Lindly as the other some is out of the said Land Item I give to my Servant
Anatomy of Melancholy
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When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home, Emma had just gone out.
Madame Bovary
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Many stoutly refused to pay; and the constables whose duty it was to distrain in such cases manifested great reluctance to proceed to extremities.
London and the Kingdom - Volume II
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John Upton the Annuity of Forty Shillings out of my said Farme during his life (if till then my Servant) to be paid on Michaelmas day in Lindley each year or else after fourteen days to distrain
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Article 14: A people's court may seal up, distrain or freeze property jointly possessed by the party subject to enforcement and other parties, and notify the joint owners in a timely manner.
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Hedges, fences, all are down, beasts exposed to wind and weather, fields and meadows lying fallow, every month a new distraint —
Peer Gynt
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Their goods were distrained upon for rent.
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United States that "our system of taxation is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.
August 2006
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Also, they ordain that there be two beadles in the borough, sworn to make all attachments and distraints, and carry out all orders from bailiffs, coroners and capital portmen which ought to be done in the borough.
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The lessor should be paid in full, or be allowed to distrain.
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A debtor's sureties shall not be distrained upon so long as the debtor himself can discharge his debt.
The Magna Carta
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He declared, that he had given no directions to distrain; and that the bailiff must have done it by his own authority. — ‘If that be the case,’ said the young squire, ‘let the inhuman rascal be turned out of our service.’
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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So modest was Mr Merdle withal, in the midst of these splendid achievements, that he looked far more like a man in possession of his house under a distraint, than a commercial Colossus bestriding his own hearthrug, while the little ships were sailing into dinner.
Little Dorrit
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To weigh the alternatives in this balance alone is the work of a moment: and there are all the more moments left for the life of princely expenditure, of inexhaustible revenue, without tax or toil, overdraft, usury or distraint, which is lived in the secret kingdom behind the eyelids.
Try Anything Twice
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Caught between these two tides, Torold passed a miserable day of fretting and waiting; but it brought him at last well beyond Willem Ten Heyt's tight and brutal guard-post, which by then had amassed a great quantity of goods distrained from agitated travellers, and a dozen sound horses.
One Corpse Too Many
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His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is lying, is dragged from beneath her.
Sketches by Boz
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The court distrained property from him.
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Advocates of this stance often quote a 1960 Supreme Court opinion, which states that "our system of taxation is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.
Four Frivolous Tax Arguments That Won't Work
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The manuscript adds that an attempt by the Duchess to prevent Lord and Lady Harley from distraining tenants who did not pay their rent has been thrown out of court.
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Because there was no valid distraint, Canada Trustco's security was not displaced.
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Their goods were distrained upon for rent.
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Lent and Michaelmas or if he be not paid within fourteen Days after the said Feasts to distrain on any part of the Ground or on any of my Lands of Inheritance Item I give to my Sister Katherine Jackson during her life eight pounds per Ann. Annuity to be paid at the two
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Drogo distrained on my father two years before, when he was in his last illness and I had all to do, our fields and Bosiet's harvest labour, and we ended in debt.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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We have been obliged to distrain, as you know; and I wish John Smithies to buy in what he pleases.
Mary Anerley
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Only if the equitable lease prevailed would the landlord's action in distraining be proper.
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Article 14: A people's court may seal up, distrain or freeze property jointly possessed by the party subject to enforcement and other parties, and notify the joint owners in a timely manner.
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I have also to tell you that I have distrained Wat the warrener from his cottage, for his Christmas rent is still unpaid, nor the hen-rents of last year.
Sir Nigel
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Now that I think about it, direct property distraint was a recognized means of compelling welchers to fulfill their obligations in the quasi-anarchic Brehon laws of Celtic Ireland, even if it was a case of tenants or debtors going after landlords or creditors.
Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #30
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For all the foregoing reasons, therefore, I conclude that the distraint upon the plaintiff's goods was contrary to law.
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First, that the goods were not Mr Newman's and so not open to distraint.
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His London life was equally disastrous. he made a start with his stock-in-trade, was constantly on the move, in dread of being distrained for rent; half starved, and in a sorry plight.
James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1
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Is it not better to give glory to God by humble confession, than, in tenderness to ourselves, to seek for fig-leaves to cover our nakedness; and to put God to it to build his glory, which we denied him, upon the ruins of our own, which we preferred before him; and to distrain for that by yet sorer judgments which we refused voluntarily to surrender to him?
The Reformed Pastor
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My creditors have distrained on my goods, and here are others again, who demand security for their interest.
The Clouds
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As guarantee of this, the burgess was expected to own a house which could be distrained in the event of default of payment.
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She and Jacob had Judah jailed and his possessions distrained because he had married a Portuguese Jewish woman in Pesaro.
Benvenida Abravanel.
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And the same process of distraint, warning, and forfeiture is to be repeated until he comes.
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Their goods were distrained in pledge for rent.
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The landlord _can at any time distrain_ for his rent; what object, then, would he have in incurring expense, and encountering delay, to procure a decree, which, when obtained, would _only restrict his former power_?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
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When they only denied the fruit, he did not distrain upon them for rent, nor disseize them and dispossess them for non-payment; but when they killed his servants, and his Son, he determined to destroy them; and this was fulfilled when Jerusalem was laid waste, and the Jewish nation extirpated and made a desolation.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)