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n. Law The act or process of distraining; distress.

n. The legal right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant in the event of nonpayment of rent

n. The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

n. In law, the act of distraining; a distress.

n. the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

"To weigh the alternatives in this balance alone is the work of a moment: and there are all the more moments left for the life of princely expenditure, of inexhaustible revenue, without tax or toil, overdraft, usury or distraint, which is lived in the secret kingdom behind the eyelids."

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distrainable    distrain   

distrain    quarry-man    amercement    chain gang    captiuitie    lookup    noncompliance    depositor    dethronement    hereinbefore