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.
Discussion Forums. |. Search. EDWARD VI, King of England and Ireland, born at Greenwich on the 12th of October 1537, was the only child of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, who died of puerperal fever twelve days later.
During the Second World war, a King was on the British throne. The Royal Family with Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day.World War Two in Europe began on 3rd September 1939,hen war broke out in 3rd September 1939 King George VI was three years into his reign. He became King unexpectedly following the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, in 1936. (When King George V died in January 1936, his eldest son Edward became King.