Usually means: Seizure of property for debt.
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  1. distraint: Merriam-Webster
  2. distraint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distraint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distraint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distraint: Vocabulary.com
  6. distraint: Wordnik
  7. distraint: Wiktionary
  8. distraint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. distraint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. distraint: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. distraint: Dictionary.com
  12. Distraint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Distraint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. distraint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. distraint: Rhymezone
  16. Distraint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. distraint: FreeDictionary.org
  18. distraint: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. distraint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. distraint: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. distraint: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Distraint: INSOLVENCY
  6. distraint: Legal dictionary
  7. distraint: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. distraint: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (distraint)

▸ noun:  (law) The legal right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant in the event of nonpayment of rent.

Similar:
distress, distringas, detainer, lien, stress, unlawful detainer, deforcement, arrentation, rent seck, suspense, more...

Opposite:
release, liberation, freedom

Adjectives:
illegal, wrongful, such, legal, unlawful, constructive, sufficient, unjust, personal, judicial, forcible

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Similar:
distress, distringas, detainer, lien, stress, unlawful detainer, deforcement, arrentation, rent seck, suspense, more...

Opposite:
release, liberation, freedom

Adjectives:
illegal, wrongful, such, legal, unlawful, constructive, sufficient, unjust, personal, judicial, forcible



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