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Definition of Impound

1. Verb. Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority. "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"

2. Verb. Place or shut up in a pound. "Pound the cows so they don't stray"

Definition of Impound

1. v. t. To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping.

Definition of Impound

1. Verb. To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; ¹

2. Verb. To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Impound

1. to seize and retain in legal custody [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impound

impostures imposturous impostury imposure impot impotable impotence impotences impotencies impotency

impotentia impotently impotents impots impound (current term) impoundage impoundages impounded impounder impounders

impounding impoundment impoundments impounds impoverish impoverished impoverishedly impoverishedness impoverisher

Literary usage of Impound

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"19, enlarge the word " impound" with which they are there associated, and give it a wider meaning than if it had been used alone (per Tindal, CJ, Thomas v. ..."

2. A New Law Dictionary and Institute of the Whole Law: For the Use of Students by Archibald Brown (1874)
"impound. The placing—ie, confining—cattle, goods, or chattels taken under ... !)2, it is enacted tlmt every person who shall impound or confine any animal ..."

3. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"Tender of amends after distress and before impound- Arl. 13. ing, makes the detainer unlawful; and gives the pit. a right ..."

4. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"Passive trustee, whether entitled to indemnity from active trustee who 1ms committed breach of trust. Court may impound interest of beneficiary to indemnify ..."

5. The Law of Landlord and Tenant: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the by John William Smith, Frederic Philip Maude, Phineas Pemberton Morris (1856)
"... Statutory Liability to provide Food for Cattle distrained 173 Statutory Alterations of Power of Landlord 174 Right to impound on Premises 175 impounding ..."

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