DISTRAHERE
To sell; to draw apart; to dissolve a contract; to divorce. Calvin.
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To sell; to draw apart; to dissolve a contract; to divorce. Calvin.
To take as a pledge property of another, and keep the same until heperforms his obligation or until the property is replevied by the sheriff. It was used tosecure an appearance in
He who seizes a distress.
Seizure; the act of distraining or making a distress.
The taking a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrong-doer intothe custody of the party injured, to procure a satisfaction for a wrong committed; as fornou-paymeut of rent, or injury
One that has no bounds with regard to its quantity, and may he repeatedfrom time to time, until the stubbornness of the party is conquered. Such aredistresses for fealty or suit of
A writ authorizing an officer to made a distraint; particularly, awrit authorizing the levy of a distress on the chattels of a tenant for non-payment ofrent. Bailey ville v. Lowell, 20 Me.
writ of. A writ formerly issued in the real action of quare impcdit, when noappearance had been entered after the attachment; it commanded the sheriff todistrain the defendant’s lands and chattels in
A supplementary distress for rent in arrear, allowed by law in some cases, where thegoods seized under the first distress are not of sufficient value to satisfy the claim.
An heir; a person entitled to share in the distribution of au estate.This term is admissible to denote one of the persons who are entitled, under the statuteof distributions, to the personal
In practice. The apportionment and division, under authority of acourt, of the remainder of the estate of an intestate, after payment of the debts andcharges, among those who are legally entitled to
A law prescribing the manner of the distribution of the estateof an intestate among his heirs or relatives. Such statutes exist in all the states.
Exercising or accomplishing distribution; apportioning, dividing, and assigning in separate items or shares.
The jury are bound to give their verdict for that party who, upon the evidence, appears tothem to have succeeded in establishing his side of the issue. But there are cases inwhich
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The share or portion which a given heir receives on the legal distribution of an intestate estate, People v. Beckwith,10 N. Y. St. Itep. 97; Page v. Rives, 18 Fed. Cas. 992.
One of the portions into which an entire state or country may be divided,for judicial, political, or administrative purposes.The United States are divided into judicial districts, in each of which is established
The prosecuting officer of the United States government in each ofthe federal judicial districts. Also, under the state governments, the prosecuting officerwho represents the state in each of its judicial districts. In
The judge of a United States district court; also, in some states, the judge of a district court of the state.
Ecclesiastical divisions of parishes in England, forall purposes of worship, and for the celebration of marriages, christenings, church- ings.and burials, formed at the instance of the queen’s commissioners for building newchurches. See