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单词 pound-breach
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pound-breachn.

Brit. /ˈpaʊn(d)briːtʃ/, U.S. /ˈpaʊn(d)ˌbritʃ/
Forms: Middle English pount-breche, Middle English pund-breche, 1500s– pound-breach, 1600s pund-brech.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pound n.2, breach n.
Etymology: < pound n.2 + breach n.Compare also Middle English pount-bruch, in the same sense ( < pound n.2 + bruche n.1):1432 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 106 Joh. Penne fecit le Pount-bruch.
Law.
The breaking open of a pound; the illegal removal or recovery by the owner of goods lawfully impounded. Cf. rescous n.
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c1210 ( Leges Hen. I xl. §1 in L. J. Downer Leges Henrici Primi (1972) 144 Pundbreche, id est infractura partici [read parrici]... Pundbreche fit pluribus modis, emissione, euocatione, receptione, excussione.
c1290 Britton (1865) I. i. xxx. §3. 180 Ceux qi ount fet prisoun en lour mesouns, ou hamsokne, ou pountbreche.
1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. §215 Privat force..trespas by entring into ground,..poundbreach or otherwise.
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Pundbrech,..is the illegal taking of Cattle out of the Pound, either by breaking the Pound, picking the Lock, or otherwise.
1690 Act 2 Will. & Mary i. c. 5 §4 Upon any Pound-breach or Rescous of Goods or Chattels distrained for Rent.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. ix. 146 The distreinor has a remedy in damages..by writ de parco fracto, or pound breach, in case they were actually impounded.
1838 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 1 239/1 (table) Riot, Breach of the Peace, and Pound-breach.
1867 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 30 406 There was an increase in the quinquennial period, 1861–65, under the head ‘riot, breach of the peace, and pound breach’, and a decrease under ‘perjury’, and ‘keeping disorderly houses’.
1891 Carmarthen Jrnl. 23 Jan. 3/1 At Lampeter County-court on Tuesday..two cases of pound-breach under distress for tithes were entered for hearing.
1968 Times 30 May 8/7 Lord Justice Russell..did not think that a person ignorant of the impounding could be guilty of pound-breach.
1991 W. V. H. Rogers Tort (BNC) 494 Illegal, irregular and excessive distress are actionable at the suit of the owner of the chattels but interference by him with a distress may in its turn be actionable as rescous or pound breach.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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