How To Use Distraint In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Because there was no valid distraint, Canada Trustco's security was not displaced.
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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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And the same process of distraint, warning, and forfeiture is to be repeated until he comes.
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After the premises were abandoned, distraint was impossible.
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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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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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When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home, Emma had just gone out.
Madame Bovary
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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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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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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.
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