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Saisie-exe-cution

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A writ resembling that of fieri facia; defined as that species of execution by which a creditor places under the hand of justice (custody of the law) his debtor's movable property liable to seizure, in order to have it sold, so that he may obtain payment of his debt out of the proceeds. Dalloz, Diet.