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arrestment

/ əˈrɛstmənt /

noun

  1. Scots law the seizure of money or property to prevent a debtor paying one creditor in advance of another
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

If these be passed, it usually spreads up the leg to just below the knee before signs of arrestment appear.

Back to thy Arrestment, poor Brissot; or indeed to strait confinement,—whither others are fared to follow.

No passage Spainward from the Thames; well if arrestment do not suddenly come from the Thames!

Arrestment on arrestment follows quick, continual; "The guillotine goes not ill."

The first of these is the bill which he introduced last session with the object of limiting the arrestment of wages.

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