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Definition
Legal right of a landlord to seize (on obtaining a court order) the goods and/or personal property of a non-paying tenant.
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distraint is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Real Estate & Buildings subjects.
distraint appears in the definition of the following term: replevin
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