distraint definition

distraint means seizure and holding of movable property as security for payment of tax and its sale in case of non-payment and ‘warrant’ means a command (which is enforceable)
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distraint or "distrain" means the right to levy upon and seize and sell, or the levying upon or seizing and selling, any property or rights to property of the delinquent dealer by the officer charged with the collection of the tax for the purpose of satisfying any tax, interest or penalties due under this Article.
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distraint means to seize and hold property as security for a debt.
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Related to distraint

  • Process or “Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon the Personal Data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure, or destruction.

  • Foreclosure means the process by which a property, placed as security for a real estate loan, is sold at auction to satisfy the debt if the trustor (borrower) defaults.

  • Arrest the Ship is arrested, confiscated, seized, taken in execution, impounded, forfeited, detained in exercise or purported exercise of any possessory lien or other claim or otherwise taken from the possession of the Borrower and the Borrower shall fail to procure the release of the Ship within a period of fourteen (14) days thereafter; or

  • Constraint or "dose constraint" means a value above which specified licensee actions are required.

  • Sheriff means the Sheriff of Western Australia and any deputy sheriff appointed by the Sheriff of Western Australia;