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Word Meanings - FORESEIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To seize beforehand.

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  • SEIZER
    One who, or that which, seizes.
  • BEFOREHAND
    1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
  • 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
  • REDISSEIZE
    To disseize anew, or a second time.
  • 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
  • DISSEIZEE
    A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor.
  • FORESEIZE
    To seize beforehand.
  • 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.
  • RESEIZE
    To take possession of, as lands and tenements which have been disseized. The sheriff is commanded to reseize the land and all the chattels thereon, and keep the same in his custody till the arrival of the justices of assize. Blackstone. (more info)

 

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