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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 Clarkson, Thomas

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