(n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Example Sentences:
(1) The debts, distraints and threats of disqualification through bankruptcy were the climax of a decade that had begun with courage and credit.
(2) It abounds in such terms as wainage , amercement , socage , novel disseisin , mort d’ancestor and distraint .
Landlord
Definition:
(n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
(n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) Last week, Theresa May announced that, as part of her immigration bill , private landlords will be required, under the threat of a £3,000 fine, to ensure that "illegal immigrants" are not given access to their properties.
(3) In 2009, the Office of Fair Trading successfully sued Foxtons for extracting “unfair” charges from landlords.
(4) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(5) It feels to landlords as though the state is interfering with their personal incomes – rather than regulating what is actually a two-way business with customers that deserve protection.
(6) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(7) The GMB union said that there was a risk that vulnerable people could be made homeless, but in the event of insolvency, Southern Cross's 31,000 homes would be run by local authorities or landlords on behalf of an administrator.
(8) They raised their issues with the council in 2012 and now the landlord is trying to get them evicted.
(9) New laws may be needed to force private landlords to insulate and upgrade rented homes, the report says.
(10) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
(11) It is a complex action, as there are a number of landlords covering private apartments and affordable shared-ownership flats.
(12) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
(13) Landlords are now getting an average yield of 5.3%, up from 5.2% in August, LSL says.
(14) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
(15) It is critical that landlords and government think deeply about the evident anxiety tenants have about receiving their rent directly,” the report warns.
(16) The landlord never cashed it and the three became friends.
(17) But landlords often put your rent up massively at the end of your lease, meaning you have to move every two years."
(18) Roger Harding, Shelter’s director of communications, policy and campaigns, said: “It beggars belief that a landlord can evict a family simply because they have three children, and the fact that this one has is yet another sign of our broken rental market.
(19) Our How to Rent guide helps tenants know their rights and responsibilities, and letting agents are now required to belong to a redress scheme so landlords and tenants have somewhere to go if they get a raw deal.” “This government has kept strong protections to guard families against the threat of homelessness.
(20) We will also require them to meet their basic responsibilities as landlords, cracking down on those who rent out dangerous, dirty and overcrowded properties.