Poinding
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The process of the law of Scotland which answers to the distress of the English law. Poinding is of three kinds: Real poinding, or poinding of the ground. This is the action by which a creditor, having a security on the land of his debtor, is enabled to appropriate the rents of the land, and the goods of the debtor or his tenants found thereon, to the satisfaction of the debt.
Personal poinding
This consists in the seizure of the goods of the debtor, which are sold under the direction of a court of his debt; or, if no purchaser appears, the goods themselves are delivered. Poinding of stray cattle, committing depredations on com, grass, or plantations, until. satisfaction is made for the damage. Bell. This corresponds to the English process of distraining cattle damage feasant. Mozley Sr W.