arrestment

/ əˈrɛstmənt /

noun

1. Scots law the seizure of money or property to prevent a debtor paying one creditor in advance of another

Example Sentences

If these be passed, it usually spreads up the leg to just below the knee before signs of arrestment appear.

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Back to thy Arrestment, poor Brissot; or indeed to strait confinement,—whither others are fared to follow.

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No passage Spainward from the Thames; well if arrestment do not suddenly come from the Thames!

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Arrestment on arrestment follows quick, continual; "The guillotine goes not ill."

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The first of these is the bill which he introduced last session with the object of limiting the arrestment of wages.

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