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v

To seize personal property of an individual, typically a tenant, to compel the performance of an obligation, such as the payment of rent. See also distress.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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