arrestment

British  

/ əˈrɛstmənt /

noun

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

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arrestment

"And how are they to bring in Alan till they can catch him?" says I. "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

I also demand arrestment of the Knaves and Dastards, and nothing more whatever.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

Previous to that time, our junior member was well known among the proletariat for his well-timed efforts to effect the abolition of the arrestment of wages.

From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

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

From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle

By old practice, alimentary funds, i.e. those necessary for subsistence, were not liable to arrestment.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

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