Distain - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: distainDistain
To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one to stain to discolor to sully to tarnish to defile used chiefly in poetry...
Namium
Namium, a distress, 2 Inst. 140.Namium, means the act of distaining property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1044....
Replevin
Replevin, a personal action to recover possession in specie of goods unlawfully taken (generally, but not exclusively, applicable to the taking of goods distrained for rent), by contesting the validity of the seizure, whereas, if the owner prefer to have damages instead, the validity may be contested by action of trespass or unlawful distress. The word means a re-delivery to the owner of the pledge or thing taken in distress. It is re-delivered to him by the registrar of the county court of the district within which it was taken, upon his undertaking and giving security to try the validity of the distress or taking, in an action of replevin to be forthwith commenced by him against the distrainer, and prosecuted with effect and without delay either in the County Court or in the High Court, and to restore it if the right be adjudged against him; after which the distrainer may keep it in distraint subject to the law of distress.It is a general rule that whoever brings replevin ought to ha...
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