Assertion: distress | /r/HasProperty | law
Facets:
value: to retain someone
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: (redirected from Distress (law))
text: In context|legal|lang=en terms the difference between distress and duress is that distress is (legal) to retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain while duress is (legal) the state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restraint of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offence.