distrainable

English

Etymology

Adjective

distrainable (comparative more distrainable, superlative most distrainable)

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
  whatever goods and chattels the landlord finds upon tne premises , whether they in fact belong to the tenant or a stranger , are distrainable by him for rent

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for distrainable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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