Districtio

Lat. [from distringere, to bind, coerce or distrain; L. Fr. destresse.'] In old English law. A distress, distraint or distraining. Districtio — modum non excedat; distress shaU not exceed measure, (shall not be excessive.) Bract, fol.

203 b.

Si fiat districtio uhi nulla causa est distrmgendi; if a distress be made where there is no cause for distraining. Id^ fol.

217.

See /rf. fol.

440 b.

Stat,Marlhr. c.

4.

Said by Lord Coke to mean a strait, {angusti4B\ because the cattle distrained are put into a strait or pound.

Co. Litt, 96 a.

But see Distringere. A thing, chattel or animal distrained. Nu Uus de cc Btero fadat ducere districtiones quas fecerit extra comitatum in quo captce fuerint; no person henceforth shall cause the distresses which he has made to be led out of the county in which they were taken. Stat, Marlbr, c.

4.

Id. c.

1.

Spelman, voc.

Distringere.

A circuit or territory withm which the power of distraining mi^ht be exercised. Qui terras — infra dlstrictionem vestram non habent, per quoe^^-distringi possunt; who have not lands within your district by which they can be distrained.

Beg, Grig. 6 b.

Districtus (q. v.) was used in the same sense.

Any compulsory proceeding

In omni actione, ubi dum eoncurrunt districtiones, videlicet in rem et in personam, ilia districtio tenenda est qucs magis timetur et magis ligat. In every action, where there are two concurrent distresses, [modes of compulsory proceeding,] namely, against the property and against the person, that 'distress [proceeding] is to be adopted which is the more fearea, and is the more stringent [binds harder.] Bract, fol.

372,