Definition of Distraint. Meaning of Distraint. Synonyms of Distraint

- Distraint or distress is "the seizure of someone’s property in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed", especially in common law countries...
- Chamber Court extended to breaches of the public peace, cases of arbitrary distraint or imprisonment, pleas which concerned the treasury, violations of the...
- Athgabálae (Old Irish for "The four paths of distraint": xvii ) is an early Irish legal tract dealing with distraint, i.e., the seizure of property in order...
- maladaptive behaviors Mental distress (or psychological distress) Distress, or distraint, the act of seizing goods to compel payment Distress (novel), a novel...
- This act also forbade ship money without Parliament's consent, fines in distraint of knighthood, and forced loans. Monopolies were cut back sharply, the...
- Parliament, Charles resurrected an all-but-forgotten law called the "Distraint of Knighthood", in abeyance for over a century, which required any man...
- loans and trade (l–107) innkeeping (108–111) fraud by couriers (112) distraint and pledge of persons for debt (113–119) safe custody or deposit (120–126)...
- Kronofogden) is the government agency in Sweden responsible of debt collection, distraint, evictions, and enforcement of court orders. The authority also supervise...
- arrest, committal, detention and control (formally called distress or distraint). These functions can also be carried out by employees of private companies...
- form of security that the damage would be made good. One peculiarity of distraint lay in the fact that the distrainor did not get any form of legal possession...