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What is a distringas?

What is a distringas? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
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Perhaps the best plan would be to put on a distringas with the deceased's grocer.
After several months' delay, during which the bank officials ignored a summons to appear in court, a distringas was secured.
A corporation, however, is proceeded against by distringas and not by attachment.

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