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Definition of Distrained
1. distrain [v] - See also: distrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distrained
Literary usage of Distrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"•ft,- л Per Willes, CJ Things delivered to persons exercising their trade, asa
special cloth to a tailor, cannot he distrained. purpose SIMPSON v. ..."
2. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"Distress, B. 4. ; or to a distress made for a toll or duty, arising in respect
of the thing distrained, and other things connected with it: as for ..."
3. An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius by Patrick Brady Leigh (1838)
"WHAT MAY, AND WHAT MAT NOT BE distrained. PAGE 1. Of goods and chattels which
may be distrained in general. 2. Things privileged from distress in favor of ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1884)
"For which purpose the things distrained must in the first place be carried to
some pound, and there impounded by the taker. But, in their way thither, ..."
5. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Thomas Day (1812)
"(11) But deer kept in a private inclosure may be distrained. ... (12) Some have
thought, that a horse, on which one is riding, may be distrained for damage ..."
6. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1878)
"The property distrained is to be kept safely (in England, ... To impound is to
put the thing distrained in some safe place of deposit, in order, ..."
7. A Law Dictionary: Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1843)
"They cannot be distrained although the purchaser allow them to remain uncut an
... As every thing which is distrained is presumed to be the property of the ..."
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