What's the difference between distraint and nonpayment?

Distraint


Definition:

  • (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 .

Nonpayment


Definition:

  • (n.) Neglect or failure to pay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between 2011 and 2015, Wayne Country had foreclosed on nearly one in every four homes in Detroit for nonpayment of property taxes.
  • (2) Home health care nurses are facing the ethical dilemma of discontinuing care to nonpaying needy patients or facing agency economic demise.
  • (3) The major points of diversion in the two studies were the difference in geographic location of the sample, the method of judging a 40-second interval, and payment or nonpayment to the participating subjects.
  • (4) Where the nonpayers live: The nonpartisan Tax Foundation locates Mitt Romney's hopelessly dependent 47 percent.
  • (5) Condom use, although somewhat more common with paying than nonpaying partners, was infrequent overall.
  • (6) Noting that the voluntary tradition leavens the competitive marketplace, the authors suggest that we have much to lose if voluntary not-for-profit hospitals no longer play a leading role in the health care system, including: needed services to all classes of patients, paying and nonpaying; an important locus of community expressions of compassion and charity; and the settings that have inspired the vision of what medicine and health care can accomplish for mankind.

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