Word Meanings - DISTRAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott.
Related words: (words related to DISTRAINT)
- PROCEED
To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou - PROCEEDER
One who proceeds. - PROCEEDING
The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act - SEIZURE
1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make - SEIZIN
Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means - PERSONALLY
1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; - SEIZER
One who, or that which, seizes. - SEIZING
1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly. The operation of fastening together or lashing. The cord or lashing used for such fastening. - PERSONALISM
The quality or state of being personal; personality. - DISTRESSING
Causing distress; painful; unpleasant. - SEIZOR
One who seizes, or takes possession. - PERSONALTY
Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property. (more info) 1. The state of being a person; personality. - SEIZE
To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. 5. To fasten; to fix. As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser. 6. To grap with - 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. - PERSONALITY
That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons. Burrill. (more info) 1. That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality. Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground. - PROPERTY
All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge - PROCEEDS
That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc. - PERSONALIZE
To make personal. "They personalize death." H. Spencer. - 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. - SEIZABLE
That may be seized. - POST-DISSEIZOR
A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - DISSEIZORESS
A woman disseizes. - IMPROPERTY
Impropriety. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal. - TRIPERSONALITY
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity. - TRIPERSONAL
Consisting of three persons. Milton. - MONOPERSONAL
Having but one person, or form of existence. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - IMPERSONALLY
In an impersonal manner. - REDISSEIZE
To disseize anew, or a second time.