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Toll-traverse

beast driven across a man's land. He may prescribe and distrain for it via regia, Cro. Eliz. 710.

Wild, (1890) 44 Ch D 146]; but the lessor can distrain on the sub-lessee or take advantage of a condition of

Medio acquietando, a judicial writ to distrain a lord for the acquitting of a mesne lord from

writ of delivery may be issued ordering the sheriff to distrain upon the defendant's goods till he delivers the chattel; and

hen. 3, c. 4, by which no man 'shall be distrained by his beasts that gain his land,' nor by his

distress, if other sufficient goods can be found to be distrained upon, See DISTRESS.

distraint : the act or action of distraining

severe, from past participle of distringere to hinder, punish see distrain ] 1 : seizure and detention of the goods of

[if the lessee defaults, the lessor may the premises] compare distrain en·ter·able adj enter into : to make oneself a party

property and specifying which items of property are to be distrained extradition warrant : a warrant for the extradition of a