Word Meanings - SEIZABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be seized.

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• SEIZURE
  1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
• SEIZIN
  Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means
• SEIZER
  One who, or that which, seizes.
• SEIZING
  1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly. The operation of fastening together or lashing. The cord or lashing used for such fastening.
• SEIZOR
  One who seizes, or takes possession.
• SEIZE
  To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. 5. To fasten; to fix. As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser. 6. To grap with
• SEIZABLE
  That may be seized.
• POST-DISSEIZOR
  A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.
• DISSEIZORESS
  A woman disseizes.
• REDISSEIZE
  To disseize anew, or a second time.
• DISSEIZOR
  One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold. Blackstone.
• DISSEIZE
  To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully ; -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize
• POST-DISSEIZIN
  A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.
• REDISSEIZOR
  One who redisseizes.
• DISSEIZEE
  A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor.
• REDISSEIZIN
  A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case. Blackstone.
• FORESEIZE
  To seize beforehand.
• RESEIZURE
  A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.
• DISSEIZIN
  The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. Blackstone.
• RESEIZER
  The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law. (more info) 1. One who seizes again.