distringas

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noun In law: A process, now little used, directing the sheriff to distrain or make distress—that is, to seize and withhold the goods of the person sought to be coerced.
noun A process commanding the sheriff to bring in the bodies of jurors who did not appear, or to distrain their lands and goods.
noun A process in equity against a body corporate refusing to obey the summons and direction of the court.
noun An order of chancery, in favor of a party claiming to be interested in any stock in the Bank of England, by which a notice is served on the bank directing its officers not to permit its transfer, or not to pay any dividend on it.

noun (Law) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.

noun law A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.

Latin, that you distrain, from distringere. See distrain.

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For serving a writ of distringas on a judgment or decree for personal property, if the specific thing be taken, three dollars.

Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed at Session of 1863-4, in the Eighty-Eighth Year of the Commonwealth. Virginia 1864
On the said account for writs of ejectment and distringas ..

History of John Bull John Arbuthnot 1701
RewonaWr Though upon a distringas against the defendant, dnires* luffi tJie sheriff must return issues, (if any there be,) and a reasonable distress is sufficient.

A digest of laws relating to the offices and duties of sheriff, coroner and constable 1812
"I see an axe and a coffee-mill there, constable: levy onto 'em with your _distringas.

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877