distrain
verb (used with object)
to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
distrainable
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a word derived from
distrain.
Example Sentences
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The defaulting tenant is a “wrong-doer,” the landlord is the “injured party,”; any attempt to defeat the landlord’s remedy by carrying off distrainable goods is denounced as “fraudulent and knavish.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Where they have not distrainable property, which is occasionally the case, they never fly, but submit to the known punishment, and go patiently to prison.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson
