Crossword-Solution: DISTRAINT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distraint | n. | The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “DISTRAINT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DISTRAINING | 1 answer |
| act or process of distraining | 1 answer |
| foreclosure | 8 answers |
| retrieval | 9 answers |
| expropriation | 15 answers |
| recovery | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DISTRAINT (5)
Sonnet I would that love were subject unto law! Upon his person I should lay distraint And force him thus to answer my complaint, Which I, in well-considered counts, should draw.
During the owners' absence there had been a distraint for rent; every bit of the furniture was carried off; two or three aged and sick folk were left lying on the bare floor--and the poor families here would have to go home to nothing but their four walls.
That the cruelty and illegality lay in the haste of the distraint, and in the goods having been carried off at once, giving no opportunity of redeeming them.
Previous thereto, the landlord had the power of distraint, but he merely held the goods he seized to compel the tenant to perform personal service.
This power of distraint was, however, confined to holdings in which there were leases by which the tenant covenanted to allow the landlord to distrain his stock and goods in default of payment of rent.