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Distrain
Distrain, to make seizure to goods or chattels by way of distress. See DISTRESS. To take as a pledge the property of another to keep the same until the performs
Double or treble costs
Double or treble costs have been frequently granted by statute, e.g., to successful defendants in actions for irregular distress, by the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 20. The true mode
Fieri facias
can break open that of a shop, Hodder v. Williams, (1895) 2 QB 663. The capital distinction between distress (see that title) and execution by fi. fa. is that on a distress for rent any person's goods,
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Hire-purchase system
AC 102. Goods comprised in a hire-purchase agreement with a tenant do not appear to be protected from distress under the Law of Distress Amendment Act, 1908 [see Smart Bros. v. Holt, (1929) 2 KB 303]. A
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
& 5 Geo. 5, c. 78), was the first of such Acts: it restricted the right to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act
Lodger
& 35 Vict. c. 79), passed for the protection of lodgers' goods, is repealed by the Law of Distress Amendment Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 53), in as far as that Act applies (see DISTRESS). The
Imbitter
To make bitter hence to make distressing or more distressing to make sad morose sour or malignant
Notice to quit
been given a notice, contumaciously wilfully holds over, and becomes liable for double rent according to the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (1 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 18. Where a lessee holds under a void
Imprisonment
or under affiliation orders, or of rates under the (English) Bastardy Laws (Amendment) Act, 1872, or the (English) Distress for Rates Act, 1849, respectively, the (English) Money Payments (Justices Procedure) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5,
Non-claim
and a day; but now no continual or other claim preserves any right of making an entry or distress or of bringing an action, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, s. 11.
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