distraint 的定义
Law.
- the act of distraining; a distress.
更多distraint例句
- 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.
- If a man has taken an ox on distraint, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
- At Michaelmas, 1817, the Duke of Somerset had made a distraint for rent.
- An unwarranted seizure for debt was fined, as was the distraint of a working ox.
- The Bible forbids the distraint of a widow's goods; Simon restricted the reference to cases of poor widows.