Word Meanings - NAMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. Burrill. (more info) Eng. & Scots Law)

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• LEVY
  A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eight of a dollar (or 12
• IMPOUNDER
  One who impounds.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• SCOTS
  Of or pertaining to the Scotch; Scotch; Scottish; as, Scots law; a pound Scots .
• IMPOUNDAGE
  1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding.
• IMPOUND
  To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. Shak.
• SCOTSMAN
  See SCOTCHMAN
• DISTRAINOR
  One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.
• DISTRESSING
  Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.
• DISTRAINT
  The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott.
• DISTRESS
  destrece, F. détresse, OF. destrecier to distress, LL. districtiare, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere. See Distrain, 1. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
• DISTRAIN
  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, 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon
• DISTRESSFUL
  Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. "Some distressful stroke." Shak. "Distressful cries." Pope. -- Dis*tress"ful*ly, adv.
• LEVYNE; LEVYNITE
  A whitish, reddish, or yellowish, transparent or translucent mineral, allied to chabazite.
• DISTRESSEDNESS
  A state of being distressed or greatly pained.
• DISTRAINABLE
  Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.
• REPLEVY
  To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfuly taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property
• REDISTRAINER
  One who distrains again.