| 单词 | distraint |
| 例句 | I have now been threatened with "enforcement by distraint" as I am currently unable to pay the outstanding bill, which means they will take my car and computers. Letters: The real value of people's earnings 2012-06-28T20:00:05Z He is now threatened with distraint for poor rates, church rates, and land-tax. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Father once apologised to me—that was when there was a distraint out against him, if you know what that is—because he wasn't rich. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The refusal to pay tithes and other ecclesiastical demands led to continuous and heavy distraints, under the various laws made in that behalf. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z The householders who refused to pay were summoned before the local bench; and it was Harriet Martineau whom the justices selected to be distrained upon; but events marched rapidly, and the distraint was not made. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z If a distraint was successful, people would refuse to buy the distrained property of their neighbors. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z At Michaelmas, 1817, the Duke of Somerset had made a distraint for rent. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z However, the disputes were ended by the distraints for payment. Cathedral Cities of England An innkeeper of that town with whom the prince had lodged put a distraint on certain jewels and other objects. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster At one assembly there about a century before Christ, a uniform law of distraint for the whole of Ireland was adopted on the motion of Sen, son of Aig�. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The early charters contain the usual privileges of holding a market, of exemption from toll or tribute, and that distraint will be allowed only for the burgess’s own debts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" As a legal term, the action of distraining or distraint, the right which a landlord has of seizing the personal chattels of his tenant for non-payment of rent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" I was cited in four actions for illegal distraint, all of which were so evidently trumped-up that they were quashed. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Every blade had been cut and carried in the night, and was then stacked on the ground on which no distraint could be levied. The Macdermots of Ballycloran But this is rather a process of distraint upon the goods of the debtor, in case of non-payment, than a case of pledge. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters As the examining judge has ordered me to make an investigating distraint, we are compelled to carry out his instructions to the letter. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Various gas and water companies have also statutory powers of distraint under special acts, but the policy of recent legislation has been to discourage any extension of such privileges. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" An unwarranted seizure for debt was fined, as was the distraint of a working ox. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Mortgages, distraints, sales, &c., have therefore increased, and there has been an exceptionally, large number of suits before the Courts of Mutual Agreement. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 It is not clear whether the arrears were remitted or extracted by distraint. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters Why, there is not a police inspector in France who would come at this hour to carry out an investigation—and a distraint to boot! Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas The bailiff of a sheriff is an under-officer employed by a sheriff within a county for the purpose of executing writs, processes, distraints and arrests. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Then he goes on to say that he intended to serve notice of distraint on Frau Willmers, but had found her door locked. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas The sovereign enjoys unrestricted immunity from political responsibility and from personal distraint. The Governments of Europe If a man has corn or money due from another man and has levied a distraint and the hostage has died a natural death in the house of the creditor, he cannot be held responsible. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters To make sure that not one should escape, the tax was held as a lien upon his labor, and the employer was under distraint to pay it. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 To pay the distraints of Isaac and Jacob Cannon," he murmured, softly, "would keep a poor slaver poor. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times But a man of position, an official whom gambling has ruined, who is overwhelmed by clamorous creditors, threatened with distraint, and on the point of being dragged before a court of justice, cannot disappear. A Mummer's Tale The distraint of knighthood, as it was called, began at least as far back as Edward I, 1278. The Leading Facts of English History If a man has no debt of corn or money due from a man on whom he has levied a distraint, for each such distraint he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters If a man has not corn or money upon a man and levies a distraint, for every single distraint he shall pay one-third of a mina. The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242 All such distraint is represented as open robbery and pillage. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II "And it was yesterday he put in the distraint?" The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One In return for this the King passed the Statute of Merchants, which made provisions for the registration of merchants' debts, their recovery by distraint, and the debtor's imprisonment. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) Nature lets out her houses and lands on liberal terms; but resorts to distraint, if her dues be not forthcoming. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 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. The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242 Innocent III enforces it by directing against ecclesiastics who were contumacious a sentence of distraint of goods without any right of appeal. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 Although distraint is one of the remedies, it is seldom advisable in a landlord to resort to distraining for the recovery of rent. The Book of Household Management There was a poor woman who kept a shop, and she was threatened with a distraint for her poor-rate. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine In 1709 he suffered distraint for tithes; goods to the value of £24 10s. being taken for a due of about £14, after which the distrainers “brought him still in debt, and wanted more.” The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself If a man has taken an ox on distraint, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver. The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242 The tardy were vexed with fines and distraints. The Eve of the French Revolution Everything has been carried off under distraint for rent, so they said, who came here. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life In a few cases distraint has been threatened, but generally the poor are living rent free. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine Added to these came the importunities of his landlord, which was met by a response which was deemed insulting, and then came a distraint for rent. Home Lights and Shadows Within the twelvemonth, a distraint was levied upon him for non-payment of moneys that were owing. Balzac Previous thereto, the landlord had the power of distraint, but he merely held the goods he seized to compel the tenant to perform personal service. Landholding in England And there was even at the bottom, "She will be constrained thereto by every form of law, and notably by a writ of distraint on her furniture and effects." Madame Bovary The agent for several landlords assures me he could not from his receipts pay the property-tax, but no distraints are made. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine That the cruelty and illegality lay in the haste of the distraint, and in the goods having been carried off at once, giving no opportunity of redeeming them. John Halifax, Gentleman On the house and property a distraint had been levied for moneys due which had not been paid. Balzac This power of distraint was, however, confined to holdings in which there were leases by which the tenant covenanted to allow the landlord to distrain his stock and goods in default of payment of rent. Landholding in England "Oh, it's very simple; a judgment and then a distraint—that's about it!" Madame Bovary The bulk of the rents are not collected, and distraints are unknown. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine "No one shall make distraint of property until he has appealed for justice in the hundred court and shire court". Our Legal Heritage From the police, who often ruined peasant householders by applying distraint indiscriminately, the collection of taxes was transferred to special authorities who took into consideration the temporary pecuniary embarrassments of the tax-payers. Russia Among the exhibitions of this influence is an act passed in the reign of George II., which extended the power of distraint for rent, and the right to sell the goods seized—to all tenancies. Landholding in England She was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two assistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for the distraint. Madame Bovary When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home, Emma had just gone out. Madame Bovary The honorial court, part of the manor court, heard distraint, also called "distress", issues. Our Legal Heritage The Court of the Mayor of London heard diverse cases, including disputes over goods, faulty goods, enhancing the price of goods, using unlawful weighing beams, debts, theft, distraints, tavern-brawling, bullying, and gambling. Our Legal Heritage No one may drive animals taken by distraint out of the shire where they have been taken. Our Legal Heritage |
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