distrain

[Dis*train·]

Levy a distress on

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To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.

Verb
legally take something in place of a debt payment

Verb
confiscate by distress

Verb
levy a distress on

v. t.
To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.

v. t.
To rend; to tear.

v. t.
To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.

v. t.
To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.

v. i.
To levy a distress.

Distrain

Dis*train" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distrained ; p. pr. & vb. n. Distraining.] [OE. destreinen to force, OF. destreindre to press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See Strain, and cf. Distress, District, Distraint.] 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] "Distrained with chains." Chaucer. 2. To rend; to tear. [Obs.]

Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain.

3. (Law) (a) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement. (b) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.

Distrain

Dis*train", v. i. To levy a distress.

Upon whom I can distrain for debt.

To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.

To levy a distress.

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