Levy
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
n.
In practice. A seizure; the raising of the money for which an exechtion has bcen issued.
— Equitable levy. The lien in equity created by the filing of a creditors' bili to subject real property of the debtor, and of a lis pendens, is sometimes so calied. Miller v. Sherry, 2 Wall. 249, 17 L. Ed. 827 ; Mandeville v. Campbell, 45 App. Div. 512, 61 N. Y. Supp. 443; George v. Railroad Ca. (G. C.) 44 Fed. 120.