distrainable
English
Adjective
distrainable (comparative more distrainable, superlative most distrainable)
- (archaic) Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- whatever goods and chattels the landlord finds upon tne premises , whether they in fact belong to the tenant or a stranger , are distrainable by him for rent
References
- “distrainable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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