Second Distress
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
When distress for rent is allowed, if the property taken under the first distress is not enough to satisfy the landlord's demand, he might distrain again, in cases allowed by law, which is a second distress. admeasurement of pasture, the same defendant surcharges the common again, the plaintiff may have this writ of second surcharge.
Wharton.