Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Lat In the civil and old English law. A taking hold of a person or thing; apprehension; the seizure or capture of a person. Calvin. One of the varieties or subordinate forms of occupatio, or the mode of acquiring title to things not belonging to any one.