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Definition of Distraining

Distraining
Distrain Dis*train", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distrained; p. pr. & vb. n. Distraining.] [OE. destreinen to force, OF. destreindre to press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See Strain, and cf. Distress, District, Distraint.] 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] ``Distrained with chains.' --Chaucer. 2. To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. --Spenser. 3. (Law) (a) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement. (b) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.

Meaning of Distraining from wikipedia

- Distraining for Rent is an 1815 genre painting by the British artist David Wilkie. It shows a tenant farmer and his family facing eviction having fallen...
- soldiers and Royal Irish Constabulary policemen who were escorting a distraining party attempting to collect tithes owed to a Church of Ireland rector...
- person (the distrainor), traditionally even without prior court approval, seizes the personal property of another located upon the distrainor's land in satisfaction...
- Haydon, his fellow traveller and brother Cedomir. On his return he began Distraining for Rent, one of the most po****r and dramatic of his works. In 1816...
- Stour Valley and Dedham Church. David Wilkie displa**** a genre painting Distraining for Rent. William Collins exhibited three genre pictures including The...
- recommends that the person intending to distrain should employ a lawyer (whose fee would be a third of the property distrained).: 179  The formal procedure of...
- taken in distress) with damages for the loss sustained by such action. As distrained goods are in the custody of the law, any attempt to take them back by...
- attorns tenant to the mortgagee, thus giving the mortgagee the right to distrain, as an additional security. As used in modern legal transactions, the term...
- could restrain the landlord from distraining on the three who did not, because he did not at the same time distrain on the three who did. He admitted...
- tax from tithes which was similarly resented. On 18 December 1834, a distraining party backed up by an escort consisting of detachments of the 29th Regiment...