Sentence examples for distraint from inspiring English sources

In the first and second statutes of Westminster, of 1275 and 1285, many deficiencies in the law were corrected, such as those concerning the relationship between lords and tenants and the way in which the system of distraint was operated.

The business of bailiffs, I think, is distraint, and Strong does not look like me like a man skilled in distraining.

These distraints of knighthood yielded more than £170,000.

Ship money and distraints of knighthood were declared illegal, royal forests were defined, and the prerogative courts of High Commission and Star Chamber were abolished.