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.
England's George V was the king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1910 until 1935, a span that included World War I (1914-18).A naval officer who had seen the reaches of the British empire firsthand, George became heir to the throne when his older brother Edward died in 1892.eorge and his wife May (known as Mary) had one daughter and five sons, including his successor, Edward VIII and Edward's successor, George VI. Extra credit: King George V was seriously injured during a trip to France during World War I when his horse fell on him and broke his pelvis...