Poinding

Poinding, the Scots term for taking goods, etc., in execution, or by way of distress. It is defined to be 'the diligence (process) which the law has devised for transferring the property of the debtor to the creditor in payment of his debt.' It is either real or personal; not that any inheritance is conveyed by a poinding, but real poinding is a power of carrying off the effects on the land in payment of such debts as are debita fundi, or heritable;personal poinding is the poinding of movables for debt or for rent, etc. There is also a species of poinding by attaching cattle trespassing, See Bell's Scots Law Dict.