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Monstraverunt

demesne who held lands by free charter, when they were distrained to do unto their lords other services and customs than

Namation

Namation, the act of distraining or taking a distress.

Non implacitando aliquem de liberto tenemento sine brevi

tenemento sine brevi, a writ to prohibit bailiffs, etc., from distraining or impleading any man touching his freehold without the king's

Onerando pro rata portionis

writ that lay for a joint-tenant, or tenant-in-common, who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land came

Pound

for Rent Act, 1737, s. 10, empowering any person lawfully distraining for rent to impound the distress on the premises chargeable

Preferential payments

The debts are a first charge on goods or proceeds distrained upon within three months of the date of the receiving

Quarantine, or Quarentaine

Quarentaine. 1. By Magna Carta, the widow shall not be distrained to marry afresh, if she choose to live without a

Quod persona nec prebendarii, etc.,

nec prebendarii, etc., a writ which lay for spiritual persons distrained in their spiritual possessions for payment of a fifteenth with

Removal of goods to prevent distress

be fradulent, or clandestine, allows the landlord to follow and distrain upon the goods for thirty days, wherever they are. See

Terris et catallis tentis ultra debitum levatum

restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt, Reg. Judic.

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