- distringas nuper vice comitem
- /dastrirjgas n(y)uwpar vaysiy komstsm/ In old English law, a writ to distrain the goods of one who lately filled the office of sheriff, to compel him to do some act which he ought to have done before leaving the office; as to bring in the body of a defendant, or to sell goods attached under a fi. fa
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.