Distress
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
The taking of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer to procure a satisfaction for a wrong committed, — as for non-payment of rent, or injury done by cattle; the chattel so taken.
In English law
Distress infinite: a distress which has no bounds as to quantity, and may be repeated until the delinquent yields.