distrainern.
/dɪˈstreɪnə/ One who distrains; = distrainor n.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > seizure of goods > one who seizes goods for debt
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1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Z3/1 The effect..is, to driue the party distreined to replevie the distresse, and so to take his action of trespasse against the distreiner.
1736 in G. Jacob New Law-dict. (ed. 3)
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiv. 363 Thou mightst have become a distrainer for rent, or a surcharger of taxes.
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 535 The distrainer had to use certain words of style.
1893 Law Times 94 600/2 A sheriff's officer may break open outhouses, though a distrainer may not.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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