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Definition of Distrainers
1. distrainer [n] - See also: distrainer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distrainers
Literary usage of Distrainers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Containing the Cases by Thomas Chitty, Richard Burn (1845)
"distrainers are bound to see tliat the pound to which they täte t distress is in
... the distrainers are liable for any damage thereby caused the distress, ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... process-servers, and drivers (persons who impounded cattle till the rent was
paid), releasing the distress and roughly handling the distrainers, ..."
3. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of by David Benedict (1848)
"... against the distrainers for their goods, damages, &c. The affair went through
two court« : in the second, the counsel for our brethren plead, ..."
4. Britton by Francis Morgan Nichols (1865)
"... the tenants jointly with the wrongful distrainers, if the with service..
tenants subject themselves to any wrongful services, to impose on the fee a ..."
5. The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's by Ontario, High Court of Justice (1885)
"... if they are taken away by pound breach, the injury is not to him but to the
distrainers, who may sue for it, and in whose possession at the common law, ..."
6. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn (1842)
"And if distresses shall be made on the prelates upon this account, the distrainers
shall be proceeded against by the like penalties (p). ..."
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