Distress - Law Dictionary Search Results
Attache
Attache, a person associated with a foreign legation. The privilege of an attache extends to prevent a distress being levied on his furniture for non-payment of rates, Macartney v. Garbutt, (1890) 24 QBD 368.
Passion
A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain any suffering or distress as a cardiac passion specifically the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his
Remorseless
Being without remorse having no pity hence destitute of sensibility cruel insensible to distress merciless
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Replevin
of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained Originally it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention
Painful
Full of pain causing uneasiness or distress either physical or mental afflictive disquieting distressing
Sackcloth
cotton cloth such as sacks are made of coarse cloth anciently a cloth or garment worn in mourning distress mortification or penitence
Aids
[fr. aides, Fr.; auxlia, Lat.], originally mere benevolences granted by a tenant to his lord in times of distress, but at length the lords claimed them as of right. They were principally three: (1) To ransom the
Algarum maris
a right, in the Middle Ages, like jetsam and flotsam, by which goods thrown from a vessel in distress became the property of the king or the lord on whose shores they were stranded, Jac. Law Dict.,
Ambassador
QB 352). Ambassadors and their domestic servants are protected from civil arrest and their goods from seizure under distress or execution by the (English) Diplomatic Privileges Act, 1708 (7 Anne, c. 12), which is declaratory of the
Apportionment
part discharged only. To obviate these difficulties it became usual to insert mutual covenants and cross powers of distress and entry upon severance of land subject to an entire rent charge. These powers have now become statutory
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