Then he goes on to say that he intended to serve notice of distraint on Frau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

An unwarranted seizure for debt was fined, as was the distraint of a working ox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home, Emma had just gone out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

Within the twelvemonth, a distraint was levied upon him for non-payment of moneys that were owing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

United States that "our system of taxation is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.".    From Wordnik.com.  [More on Murphy] Reference

Hedges, fences, all are down, beasts exposed to wind and weather, fields and meadows lying fallow, every month a new distraint —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peer Gynt] Reference

And there was even at the bottom, “She will be constrained thereto by every form of law, and notably by a writ of distraint on her furniture and effects.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

That in case of distraint for the payment of the taxes aforesaid, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tax and assessment acts, and amendments : the tax act of 24th April 1863, as amended,] Reference

Otherwise, the respective distraint officer should lift the distraint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prague Monitor] Reference

Adrian Quiney, obtained a writ of distraint against him, and although in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference

Brown, John, obtains a writ of distraint against Shakespeare's father, 12.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference

On average, some 4 to 5 percent of the Czech population are in distraint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prague Monitor] Reference

"Oh, it's very simple; a judgment and then a distraint -- that's about it!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

Everything has been carried off under distraint for rent, so they said, who came here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference

Prague, Dec 9 (CTK) - The Prague 1 District Court yesterday halted the distraint upon some.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prague Monitor] Reference

The sovereign enjoys unrestricted immunity from political responsibility and from personal distraint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governments of Europe] Reference

Addicehead, and at the very time when I was hearing of the fact was suffering distraint of his goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

The poor artist lived in agonies of hunger, tormented by bailiffs, by distraint warrants, and by humiliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The Protocol Service company that has proposed the distraint proceedings can appeal the verdict within 15 days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prague Monitor] Reference

They pleaded for more time for repaying the dues and appealed to officials to desist from distraint proceedings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

The company was not willing to leave the premises, and this is why the NPU proposed a distraint upon its property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prague Monitor] Reference

One of the most curious features of these attempts at distraint by the middle-class on the people were the Popular Universities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House] Reference

Although distraint is one of the remedies, it is seldom advisable in a landlord to resort to distraining for the recovery of rent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

To make sure that not one should escape, the tax was held as a lien upon his labor, and the employer was under distraint to pay it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

Parliament had exempted sheep, but not cattle or crops, from distraint, with an eye to encouraging the woollen interest in Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)] Reference

As the examining judge has ordered me to make an investigating distraint, we are compelled to carry out his instructions to the letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference

Added to these came the importunities of his landlord, which was met by a response which was deemed insulting, and then came a distraint for rent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lights and Shadows] Reference

And there was even at the bottom, "She will be constrained thereto by every form of law, and notably by a writ of distraint on her furniture and effects.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

A number of farmers complained over the distraint proceedings initiated by a few nationalised banks against farmers who had failed to repay their term loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

She was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two assistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for the distraint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

Stratford Records notice how a John Shakespeare was worried by suits brought against him by John Brown, in whose favour a writ of distraint was issued against Shakespeare in 1586.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

“Oh, it’s very simple; a judgment and then a distraint — that’s about it!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference