Provisional Seizure

In Louisiana. A term which signifies nearly the same as attachment of property. By the Code of Practice, plaintiff may, in certain cases, obtain the provisional seizure of the property which he holds in pledge, or on which he has a privilege (q. v.), in order to secure a payment of his claim. Provisional seizure may he ordered: First, in executory proceedings, when the plaintiff sues on a title importing confession of judgment; second, when a lessor prays for the seizure of furniture or property used in the house, or attached to the real estate which he has leased; third, when a seaman, or other person, employed on board of a ship or water craft, navigating within the state, or person having furnished materials for or made repairs to such ship or water craft, prays that the same may be seized, and prevented from departing, until he has been paid the amount of his claim; fourth, when the proceedings are in rem, that is to say, against the thing itself which stands pledged for the debt, when the property is abandoned, or in cases where the owner of the thing is unknown or absent. See Nolte v. His Creditors, 6 Mart. N. S. (La.) 168.

A remedy known under the law of Louisiana, and substantially the same in general nature as attachment of property in other states. Code Proc. La. 284, et seq.

Defined under Provisional in Black's Law Dictionary.