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
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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.
Enough has been said, I think, that distress is an opinion of a present evil, in which opinion there is this — that one ought to take up the distress.
Because to this kind of evils that opinion is not added, that it is right and just and pertains to duty to take it ill that you are not wise — which same opinion we add to this distress, in which there is mourning, which is the greatest of all.
that all distress is far from the wise man, because it is empty, because it is taken up in vain, because it arises not from nature but from judgement, from opinion, from a certain invitation to grieve, when we have decreed that it ought so to be done.
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.
The only peculiar remedy available for this class of wrongs is distress damage feasant, which, though an imperfect remedy, is so far a remedy that it suspends the right of action for the trespass.
In one respect distress damage feasant is more favoured than distress for rent.
The right of distress damage feasant does not exclude the right to chase out trespassing beasts at one’s election, or to remove inanimate chattels and replace them on the owner’s land.
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.
They seem to be quite unmistakeable in that portion of our own English law which is concerned with the power of Distraint or Distress and with the connected legal remedy known as Replevin.
The modern theory of Distress is that a landlord is allowed to distrain because by the nature of the case he is always compelled to give his tenant credit, and that he can distrain without notice because every man is supposed to know when his rent is due.