distraint

English

Noun

Wikipedia distraint (countable and uncountable; plural distraints)

1. (law) The legal right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant in the event of nonpayment of rent

Related terms

• distrain
• distrainable

Translations

right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扣押財物, 扣押财物 (kòuyā cáiwù)

• Finnish: pidätysoikeus (fi)
• French: saisie-exécution (fr) f, saisie mobilière (fr) f, saisie-arrêt (fr) f

• Italian: pignoramento (it) m
• Romanian: sechestru (ro) n
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍvrha (sh) f (Croatian)
• Spanish: embargo (es)