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Definition of Distrainors
1. distrainor [n] - See also: distrainor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distrainors
Literary usage of Distrainors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"... appear at the County Court holden next after the making of the bond, and then
and there prosecute her suit with effect against the distrainors; plea, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Sandford Nevile, Court of Exchequer Chamber, Court of King's Bench, Erskine Perry, Great Britain (1838)
"distrainors A RESPASS for distraining the plaintiff's ewes and we- are bound to
thers, and chasing and ... &c. distrainors ' muddy, the The defendant IV. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"A plea that the distrainors entered their appearance at the next county court,
and that the said suit from thence hitherto has beet, and Mill is pending and ..."
4. Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: 1840-1844 by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1843)
"A plea that the distrainors entered their appearance at the next county court,
and that the said suit from thence hitherto has been and still is pending and ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... or continuance on the premises by the distrainors for the purpose of the
distress, or the subsequent treatment of the distress, such as, in Etherton v. ..."
6. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"... or a parish officer for taxes, these for a time are only a pledge in the hands
of the distrainors, and they are bound by an implied contract in law to ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1837)
"1836. distrainors trespassers ab initio, by reason of any irregularity in the
distress, provides, that the party aggrieved by the irregularity shall recover ..."