Legal Definition of distress. 1  1 : seizure and detention of the goods of another as pledge or to obtain satisfaction of a claim by the sale of the goods seized; specifically : seizure by a landlord of a tenant's property to obtain satisfaction of arrearages in rent Editor's note: Distress is regulated by statute where available.
Edward VI (12 October 1537 â 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch raised as a Protestant.
Edward Said. Edward Wadie Said (Arabic pronunciation: [wÃ¦diËÊ sÃ¦ÊiËd] Arabic: Ø¥Ø¯ÙØ§Ø±Ø¯ ÙØ¯ÙØ¹ Ø³Ø¹ÙØ¯ ââ, IdwÄrd WadÄ«Ê¿ SaÊ¿Ä«d; 1 November 1935 â 25 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies