PROVISIONAL SEIZURE
(bouvier) | PROVISIONAL SEIZURE. A term used in Louisiana, which signifies nearly the
same as attachment of property.
2. It is regulated by the Code of Practice as follows, namely: Art.
284. The plaintiff may, in certain caws, hereafter provided, obtain the
provisional seizure of the property which he holds in pledge, or on which he
has a privilege, in order to secure the payment of his claim.
3. Art. 285. Provisional seizure may be ordered in the following cases:
1. In executory proceedings, when the plaintiff sues on a title importing
confession of judgment. 2. 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. 3. When a seaman, or another person, employed on board of a ship or
water craft, navigating within the state, or persons 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.
4. 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. Vide 6 N. S.
168; 8 N. S. 320; 7 N. S. 153; 1 Martin, R. 168; 12 Martin, R. 32.
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