The Capillary Wave: Word Index
A country is a polity which is divided up in to administrative “districts”, and each district administers the state business, and its citizenry within that jurisdictional area.
A district is an area of administration under a feudal lord or officer who can take and withhold personal property for legal reasons. Some citizens of the UNITED KINGDOM that have been involved in a “planning enforcement” issue will possibly resonate with that definition, and its closely linked and synonymous term: “distress”
Understanding the legal position that you are in as a citizen will help you to understand what a district is and how it operates against you.
Word Index: Citizen
- distress (n.) late 13c., “circumstance that causes anxiety or hardship,” from Old French destresse (Modern French détresse), from Vulgar Latin *districtia “restraint, affliction, narrowness, distress,” from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere “draw apart, hinder,” also, in Medieval Latin “compel, coerce,” from dis- “apart” (see dis-) + stringere “draw tight, press together” (see strain (v.)). Meaning “anguish; grief; pain or suffering of the body or mind” is from c. 1300. also from late 13c.
- distress (v.) late 14c., distressen, “constrain or compel by pain, suffering, or other circumstances; harass,” from Old French destresser “restrain, constrain; afflict, distress,” from Vulgar Latin *districtiare “restraint, affliction, narrowness, distress,” from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere “draw apart, hinder,” also, in Medieval Latin “compel, coerce,” from dis- “apart” (see dis-) + stringere “draw tight, press together” (see strain (v.)).
A list of the registration districts in England and Wales:
