Distraining

Word DISTRAINING
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Definitions and meanings of "Distraining"

What do we mean by distraining?

To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.

To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.

To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.

To pull off, tear apart.

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The word "distraining" in example sentences

A majority of his customers obtained their pianos on the "hire-purchase system," and oftener than not, they were persons of very small or very precarious income, who, rabid in the pursuit of gentility signed agreements they had little chance of fulfilling; when in pecuniary straits, they either raised money upon the instruments, or allowed them to fall into the hands of distraining creditors. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2009)

Obviously I do not support the idea of untrained and unsanctioned bailifs restraining or even distraining. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He pronounced avenue — EVENUE, and nothing — NOTHINK, so droll; and he had a Mr. Hodson, his hind from Mudbury, into the carriage with him, and they talked about distraining, and selling up, and draining and subsoiling, and a great deal about tenants and farming — much more than I could understand. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On pretence of distraining for the rent of a cottage, he has robbed the mother of these and other poor infant-orphans of two cows, which afforded them their whole sustenance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For this man fronting her was more than she had thought him, and suddenly it seemed that giving him up was almost as generous a gesture as this gesture of his, turning her loose to her happiness with another man and another cause, only distraining the small matter of gold for his pains. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1979)

If any one refused or neglected to attend, he was punished by a fine, and by distraining his goods, unless he had a just excuse. ❋ Charles K. Dillaway (N/A)

The authorities could not see, as did the champion of religious liberty, the opportunities of oppression that such a system afforded; nor could they feel with him the harshness of its taxation, nor the injustice of distraining dissenters 'goods, -- or, as he phrased it, "their lack of faith in God and in God's people to uphold religion." ❋ Maria Louise Greene (N/A)

’ He pronounced avenue—evenue, and nothing—nothink, so droll; and he had a Mr. Hodson, his hind from Mudbury, into the carriage with him, and they talked about distraining, and selling up, and draining and subsoiling, and a great deal about tenants and farming—much more than I could understand. ❋ Unknown (1917)

First of all, he pronounced the property of Tiberius Gracchus to be forfeited to the gods because in fining and distraining upon a man who had appealed to a tribune, he had not yielded to his veto and had impugned his authority. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Therefore Mr. Granger, fortified by a judgment duly obtained, had announced his intention of distraining upon Jones's hay and cattle. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Plymouth, the 'Jason' stayed behind ignominiously in Portsmouth because her captain had no ready money to pay a distraining baker. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

A majority of his customers obtained their pianos on the 'hire-purchase system,' and oftener than not, they were persons of very small or very precarious income, who, rabid in the pursuit of gentility, signed agreements they had little chance of fulfilling; when in pecuniary straits, they either raised money upon the instruments, or allowed them to fall into the hands of distraining creditors. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

The owl and his belongings he leaves severely alone; but whether from a doubt as to the legality of distraining upon the goods of a lodger, or from a certainty as to the lodger's goods including claws and a beak, naturalists do not say. ❋ Various (1880)

Irish estate; and he cast his burden upon Cecil: 'Your cousin, the doting Deputy,' Fitzwilliam, he wrote, had been distraining on his tenants for a supposed debt from himself as Undertaker. ❋ Unknown (1879)

He had still his own palatinate courts; he still collected his dues by force, driving away his clansmen's cattle, and distraining those who resisted him. ❋ Emily Lawless (1879)

As for all those of our subjects who will not, of their own accord, swear to join the five-and-twenty barons in distraining and distressing us, we will issue orders to make them take the same oath as aforesaid. ❋ John Fiske (1871)

And he heareth that the devils are distraining on the hermit's soul, and that judgment will presently be given in their favour, whereof make they great joy. ❋ Anonymous (1869)

If John infringed upon any of the articles of the Charter the twenty-five, with the assistance of the whole community of the kingdom, had the right of distraining upon the king's lands till enough was obtained to make up the loss to the person who had suffered wrong. ❋ Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1865)

No. 111, bill extending time for distraining for, 182 ❋ Virginia. General Assembly. House Of Delegates (1861)

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