Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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DOUBLE DISTRESS, n. comb. Sc. law: a distraint applied by two or more creditors (Sc. 1773 Erskine Institutes iv. iii. 23); “two or more claims on a single fund, an essential of a multiple-poinding” (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 30).Sc. 1863 Session Cases (1863–64) 284:
The trustee who had intimated the personal claim objected to the competency of the multiple-poinding, in respect . . . that there was no double distress.Sc. 1890 Erskine Princ. Law Scot. iv. i. 30:
A debtor who is distressed or threatened with distress, called double distress, by two or more persons claiming right to the debt.
