This is a writ for restitution of cattle that have been distrained or impounded.
Desires Calle to make a roll of the tenants and when he comes to Cotton enter therein how much cattle has been distrained from each.
The farmers of the taxes were out in all parts of France endeavouring to extort those levies which the ordinary tax-gatherers had demanded and distrained for in vain.
As the Dissenters had supported Shaftesbury and his party, he let loose the myrmidons of persecution against them, and they were fined, distrained upon, and imprisoned as remorselessly as ever.
If a distraint was successful, people would refuse to buy the distrained property of their neighbors.
That none of them be distrained by any without the said city for the repayment of any debt to any person for which he is not capital debtor or surety.
Nor shall the debtor's sureties be distrainedas long as the debtor is able to pay the debt.
In no city, borough, town, market, or fair shall a person of the realm be distrained for a debt for which he is not the debtor or pledge.
No burgess may be confined or distrained any where else within my land or power for any debt, unless he is a debtor or surety (to avoid a person owed a debt from distraining another person of the town of the debtor).
Otherwise, he distrained only by goods and chattels without judgment of his court.
Thus, in Kildare, a farmer who had purchased somedistrained cattle, was obliged to throw up his farm and leave the country.
To "replevy" is when the person distrainedupon applies to the proper authority (the registrar of the county court) to have the thing returned to his own possession, on giving security to try the right of taking it in an action of replevin.
These exceptions, it will be seen, imply that the thingdistrained is to be held as a pledge merely--not to be sold.
The cattle or other animals thus distrained are a mere pledge in the hands of the injured person, who has only power to retain them until the owner appear to make satisfaction for the mischief they have done.
This being opposed, occupied much time; and before it was settled, the landlord once more distrained for rent alleged to be due on the 29th of September.
But that the damages were too moderate as regarded the landlord was manifest from the fact, that he again distrained in March for rent not due until May.
From this statement it would appear that this Mr Shee distrained illegally, that the tenant sought the protection of the law, and that he obtained damages to the amount of L12.
The general rule is, that nothing can be distrained which cannot be returned in the same condition as before the distress was made.
For Mr. Barrows had only been dead four days, and to- day was the twenty-eight of September.
Let Juliana Forester be distrained for her default, also William Moor.
If distraint were successful, people would refuse to buy thedistrained property of their neighbors.
The burgesses of Glocester promised three hundred lampreys, that they might not be distrained to find the prisoners of Poictou with necessaries, unless they pleased.
I can with perfect safeness say, that of these eleven cottages, and those two in Carpenter's-place, I neverdistrained upon a poor tenant in my life.
And also the same day and year they decreed among themselves that no man should stay in the aforesaid town beyond a year and a day without being distrained to take oath to maintain their aforesaid assemblies and ordinances.
For the men of Lisle there came one Alard of Leeuw and showed a charter of the lord the King for himself only, stating that he should not bedistrained unless he were a principal debtor or surety.
Therefore he is distrained to dwell on the tenement here.
And if any great men or others without the King's command have distrained any to take up arms, and at what time.
Neither fixtures in a house nor provisions can be distrained, nor any other article which cannot be restored in as good a state as when it was taken; but wearing apparel may be distrained when they are not in use.
But goods left at an inn or other place of conveyance, a chaise or horse standing in a stable, though the property of a third person, may be distrained for rent.
If goods be impounded, though they have been distrained without a cause, a tenant cannot touch them, because they are then in the hands of the law; but if not impounded or taken away, he is at liberty to rescue them.
A debtor's sureties shall not be distrained upon so long as the debtor himself can discharge his debt.
No one shall be distrained for performance of greater service for a knight's fee, or for any other free tenement, than is due therefrom.
Bray was ancient demesne and the king's tenants complained that they were distrained to do other services than they were used to do.
In Broughton a man distrained for default puts himself on the verdict of the whole court and of the township of Hurst, both villains and freemen, that he owes no suit to the court of Broughton, save twice a year and to afforce the court.
The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for.
Now, by the English law, neither was the present Earl of Suffolk bound by that decree, nor could the goods be distrained under it.
This grant he made, and for performance bound the lands of him and his heirs to be distrained on; and if the lands should be evicted, that yet he and his heirs should accomplish the gift.
It is the horse of Franklin Aylward, my father, which has been distrainedby us because he owes the Abbey fifty good shillings and can never hope to pay it.
I have also to tell you that I have distrained Wat the warrener from his cottage, for his Christmas rent is still unpaid, nor the hen-rents of last year.
No man shall be distrained to perform more service for a knight's fee, or other free tenement, than is due from thence.
Neither a town nor any tenant shall bedistrained to make bridges or embankments, unless that anciently and of right they are bound to do it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distrained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
