SAISIE-GAGERIE

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

  SAISIE-GAGERIE, French law. A conservatory act of execution, by which the 
  owner, or principal lessor of a house or farm, causes the furniture of the 
  house or farm leased, and on which he has a lien, to be seized, in order to 
  obtain the rent due to him. It is similar to the distress of the common law. 
  Dall. Dict. h.t.