Word Meanings - SEIZABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That may be seized.
Related words: (words related to SEIZABLE)
- 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.