Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence.
Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty.
Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
A cause of such discomfort.
The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Serious danger.
An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.