SAISIE-FORAINE

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

  SAISIE-FORAINE. A term used in Louisiana and in the French law; this is a 
  permission given by the proper judicial officer, to authorize a creditor to 
  seize the property of his debtor in the district which he inhabits. Dall. 
  Dict. h.t. It has the effect of an attachment of property, which is applied 
  to the payment of the debt due.