Distringas Vice Comitem
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A writ of distringas, directed to the coroner, may be issued against a sheriff if he neglects to execute a writ of venditioni exponas. Archb. Prac. 584. pel; literally, to bond fast, or strain hard. Spelman; Calv. Lex. Nee villa nee homo distringatur facere pontes, nor shall a vill nor a man be distrained to make bridges Magna Charta (9 Hen. 111.) c.
15; Id! (Johan.) c. 23.
Constringere is used in this sense in old writs.
Spelman.