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Double or treble damages

ss. 4 and 5, which gave double and treble damages for pound breach and wrongful sale upon a distress respectively, but at common law the damages are always single. They are not reckoned in the same manner

Forhall

To harass to torment to distress

Familiarize

to accustom to make well known by practice or converse as to familiarize ones self with scenes of distress we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings

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Exigency

The state of being exigent urgent or exacting want pressing necessity or distress need a case demanding immediate action supply or remedy as an unforeseen exigency

Easiness

The state or condition of being easy freedom from distress rest

Distraint

The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress

Distrain

To press heavily upon to bear down upon with violence hence to constrain or compel to bind to distress torment or afflict

Console

To cheer in distress or depression to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of to relieve to comfort to soothe

Consolation

The act of consoling the state of being consoled allevation of misery or distress of mind refreshment of spirit comfort that which consoles or comforts the spirit

Comfortless

Without comfort or comforts in want or distress cheerless

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