the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord''s remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord''s lien" 同义词：distress,
Distraint or distress is "the seizure of someone’s property in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed", especially in common law countries."Distraint", Compact Oxford English Dictionary Distraint is the act or process "whereby a person (the distrainor), traditionally even without prior court approval, seizes the personal property of another located upon the distrainor's land in satisfaction of a claim, as a pledge for performance of a duty, or in reparation of an injury.
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