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Qué (quién) es Distrain - definición

SEIZURE OF PROPERTY TO OBTAIN PAYMENTS
Distress (law); Distringas; Distrain; Distress (legal); Distress for rent
  • A distraint in progress, depicted in an 1846 painting by [[Peter Schwingen]]

distrain         
v. a.
(Law.) Seize (for debt), take, attach, distress.
distrain         
[d?'stre?n]
¦ verb Law seize (property) in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed.
Derivatives
distrainer noun
distrainment noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. destreindre, from L. distringere 'stretch apart'.
Distrain         
·vi To levy a distress.
II. Distrain ·vt To Rend; to Tear.
III. Distrain ·vt To subject to distress; to Coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.
IV. Distrain ·vt To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to Bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.
V. Distrain ·vt To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, ·etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an Amercement.

Wikipedia

Distraint

Distraint or distress is "the seizure of someone’s property in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed", especially in common law countries. Distraint is the act or process "whereby a person (the distrainor), traditionally even without prior court approval, seizes the personal property of another located upon the distrainor's land in satisfaction of a claim, as a pledge for performance of a duty, or in reparation of an injury." Distraint typically involves the seizure of goods (chattels) belonging to the tenant by the landlord to sell the goods for the payment of the rent. In the past, distress was often carried out without court approval. Today, some kind of court action is usually required, the main exception being certain tax authorities – such as HM Revenue and Customs in the United Kingdom and the Internal Revenue Service in the United States – and other agencies that retain the legal power to levy assets (by either seizure or distraint) without a court order.

Ejemplos de uso de Distrain
1. I had held off buying a shredder for some time, partly because I didnt want to acknowledge that I now inhabited a world in which it had become necessary, partly because I didnt want to lose any fingers, but I finally succumbed last week to the incessant television hectoring by Alistair McGowan that if anything ended up in my dustbin but grass cuttings, then hundreds of globally strewn cyberclones would soon be driving Ferraris and gargling Petrus and bedding celebrity ladyboys until the bailiffs stove my door in to distrain upon everything I owned and, discovering I no longer owned it, bunged me into Belmarsh.