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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Example Sentences

"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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

The mineral matter that formed the globe had converged towards its centre of gravity, and the arrestment of the momentum of the coalescing particles resulted in intense heat.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel

In every township of France sit revolutionary committees for arrestment of suspects; notable also is the Tribunal Révolutionnaire, and our Supreme Committee of Public Safety, of nine members.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir