SAISIE-EXECUTION

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SAISIE-EXECUTION, French law. This term is used in Louisiana. It is a writ 
  of execution by which the creditor places under the custody of the law, the 
  movables, which are liable to seizure, of his debtor, in order that out of 
  them he may obtain payment of the debt due by him Code of Practice, art. 
  641, Dall. Diet. h.t.. It is a writ very similar to the fieri facias.