(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.