There was a poor woman who kept a shop, and she was threatened with a distraint for her poor-rate.

In a few cases distraint has been threatened, but generally the poor are living rent free.

The agent for several landlords assures me he could not from his receipts pay the property-tax, but no distraints are made.

The bulk of the rents are not collected, and distraints are unknown.

Although distraint is one of the remedies, it is seldom advisable in a landlord to resort to distraining for the recovery of rent.

The confinement on board a slave-ship had been also bitterly complained of; but, under distraint for the debt of a master, the poor slave might linger in a gaol twice or thrice the time of the Middle Passage.

They were able on sudden emergencies to raise considerable supplies by loan from the merchants of the city, who seldom dared to refuse, or, if they did, were compelled to yield by menaces of distraint and imprisonment.

Not only were the poor old couple evicted with the least possible delay, but their few "sticks of furniture," precious to themselves and worth absolutely nothing to anybody else, were seized and carried off to Monavoethere being no bidders at the sale which Peter held in "distraint for rent.

Worst of all was it when they were unable to pay even the few shillings required; they then had to undergo the hardship and disgrace of distraint, and see their furniture seized and sold by the tax-collectors.