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Categories: Economics & Finance
In the law of civil practice, the term refers to the act performed by an officer of the law under court order when she takes into custody the property of a person against whom a court has rendered a judgment to pay a certain amount of money to another.
(source: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/seizure)
Synonyms:
asset hold, repossession
