distringas
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin , that you distrain, from distringere. See distrain.
Noun edit
distringas (plural distringases)
- (law, historical) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “distringas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Verb edit
distringās