distrainable

English

Etymology

distrain +‎ -able

Adjective

distrainable (comparative more distrainable, superlative most distrainable)

1. (archaic) Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     whatever goods and chattels the landlord finds upon tne premises , whether they in fact belong to the tenant or a stranger , are distrainable by him for rent

References

• “distrainable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.