Distress
idea · 3 works · 7 mentions · 16 anchored passages
distress · distress damage feasant · aegritudo · Distraint · distress for rent · grief · lypē · mourning · nams · sickness of mind
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
The Stoic-analyzed emotion of grief or mental affliction, defined as a fresh opinion of a present evil that one judges one ought to feel.
For these are faults not of nature but of blame.
But there is one principle of all distresses, many names.
You see, then, that the evil is of opinion, not of nature.
The Law of Torts
The self-help remedy of taking and holding goods (such as straying cattle) as security for a wrong or unpaid due, discussed as to its scope, manner of exercise, and statutory modification.
Entry to take a distress must be peaceable and without breaking in;
In one respect distress damage feasant is more favoured than distress for rent.
or if the lord who distrains for rent, or the owner for damage feasant, works or kills the distress;
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The extrajudicial seizure of another's property to compel satisfaction, traced from primitive self-help through its regulated and modern forms.
8) that the branch of law which we now call the Law of Distress occupies the greatest part of the largest Brehon law-tract, the Senchus Mor.
But the foray which survives in the old Law of Distress is not, like the combat of the ancient Roman Action, a mere dramatic representation.
I cannot doubt that the practice which I have called by the general name of Distress kept its place in ancient Teutonic law partly as a mere ‘survival.