Definition of Seisures

1. seisure [n] - See also: seisure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seisures

seismometre
seismometres
seismometric
seismometries
seismometry
seismosaur
seismosaurus
seismoscope
seismoscopes
seismotectonic
seismotherapy
seisms
seisor
seisors
seisure
seisures (current term)
seitan
seitanic
seitans
seiten
seitens
seith
seities
seity
seizable
seize
seize on
seize out
seize the day

Literary usage of Seisures

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1890)
"... I alluded to seisures of whisky in transportation from one place to another, for want of murks and certificates, when it was notorious that the whisky ..."

2. A History of the Forest Or Chace, Known by the Name of Cranborn Chace by William WEST (1816)
"... with some specific instances of seisures and fines; and in Damerham, of putting a man to death, without any cause, after taking him to ..."

3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1891)
"... sixe seisures made of meale in the handes of Jeromes the other defendants. ... that time he hath beene diuerse times interrupted by seisures and yet of ..."

4. Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1811)
"... taken for all goods sold within your Jurisdictions, not onely of your owne people, but of the English, with heavy fines, and seisures, ..."

5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1893)
"I find a case reported by Jacob May, MD8 "The patient, 31 years old, taken in her third pregnancy with epileptic seisures; they continued increasing in ..."

6. Oxford City Documents, Financial and Judicial, 1258-1665 by Oxford (England) (1891)
"Saith there haue beene sixe seisures made of meale in the handes of Jeromes the other defendants. The effect of the Ans-wres of Peter Pory, Thomas Jerome, ..."

7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"Ct 1908,] Searches and seisures — excise on cor‘poration — making tax returns pnb. lie. 19. ... (For other cases, see Searches and seisures, in Digest Sup. ..."

8. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England by New Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts General Court (1859)
"... not onely of yor owne people, but of the English, with heavy fines, £ seisures for omissions or misse entries to the hinderance of trade £the ..."

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