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Saisie-Execution

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

In French Law. A writ of execution by which the creditor places under the custody of the law the movables of his debtor, which are liable to seizure, in order that’ out of them he may obtain payment of the debt due by him. La. Code of Pract. art. 641; Dalloz, Diet. It is a writ very similar to the fieri facias of the common law.