disdained

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If a distraint was successful, people would refuse to buy the distrained property of their neighbors.

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.

Their property, where they have any, is of course distrained upon, and a great part of a little substance is sometimes taken from them on, this account.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Clarkson, Thomas

From this statement it would appear that this Mr Shee distrained illegally, that the tenant sought the protection of the law, and that he obtained damages to the amount of £12.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

One of them came to him, complaining grievously of his landlord for having distrained his goods.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Now, by the English law, neither was the present Earl of Suffolk bound by that decree nor could the goods be distrained under it.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David