Poinding

PERSONAL, in the Scotch law, is a poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor, and of those goods only. It may have for its warrant either letters of horning, containing a clause for poinding, and then it is executed by messengers; or precepts from sheriffs and other inferior judges, which are executed by their proper officers. No cattle pertaining to the plough, nor instruments of tillage can be poinded in the time of labouring or tilling the ground, unless where the debtor has no other goods that may be poinded. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 3, 6, 11. See Distress, to which this process is somewhat similar.