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If a man has corn or money upon a man and has levied a distraint, and the distress in the house of his distrainer dies a natural death, that case has no penalty.

From The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242 by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Excessive or disproportionate distress exposes the distrainer to an action, and any irregularity formerly made the proceedings 323 void ab initio, so that the remedy was attended with considerable risk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

Homesteads were sold for the payment of foreclosed mortgages, cattle were seized in distrainer, and the farmer himself was sent to jail.

From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John