distrainor

noun

distrainor

noun

Etymology From distrain + -or.

1

Law Obsolete Someone who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

the distrainor happens to come again into possession of his own property in goods which before he had lost1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

Synonyms: distrainer, bailiff, repo man

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