arrestment

/ əˈrɛstmənt /

noun

1. Scots law the seizure of money or property to prevent a debtor paying one creditor in advance of another

Example Sentences

The legal changes the party wants to see include a temporary rent freeze, a ban on winter evictions and changes to laws on debt including fairer rules on earnings, arrestment and bankruptcy fees.

From BBC

He continued, “Those small fights normally started by the anti-Occupy camp, who provoked protestors by aggressive speech. Some of them got taken away by the police, but as some of our protestors believe, the police let them go without arresting them, cause they do return to the protest site again after the “arrestment” by the police.”

From Newsweek

Flight test aircraft could not engage the arrestment cable during tests at the Lakehurst, New Jersey, test facility.

From Time

It lies at the bottom of the homestead exemptions of America, and our own prohibition of arrestment of tools and wages for debt, and our occasional measures for cancelling arrears.

From Project Gutenberg

However, I was convinced that it could only be suspicions, founded on Aurelia's extraordinary conduct, which had led to my arrestment.

From Project Gutenberg