Second Distress
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
By 17 Car. It. c.
— 7, § 4, in all cases where the value of the cattle distrained shall not be found to be of the full value of the arrears distrained for, the party to whom such arrears are due, his executors or administrators, may distrain again for the said arrears; but a second distress cannot, it seems, be at all justified, where there is enough which might have been taken upon the first, if the distrainer had then thought proper;
— for a man who has an entire duty, as rent, for example, shall not split the entire sum, and distrain for one part of it at one time, and for the other part of it at another time, and so toties quoties for several times, for that would be great oppression.
Wharton.