In praotioe. The act performed by an officer of the law, under the authority and exigence of a writ, in taking into the custody of the law the property, real or personal, of a person against whom the judgment of a competent court has pass-ed, condemning him to pay a certain sum of money, in order that such property may be sold, by authority and due course of law, to satisfy the Judgment, or the act of taking possession of goods in consequence of a vio-la tion of public law. See Carey v. Insur-ance Co., 84 wis. 80, 54 N. W. 18, 20 L. R. A. 267, 36 Am. St. Rep.. 907; Goubeau r. Railroad Co., 6 Rob. (La.) 348; Fluker v. Bullard, 2 La. Ann. 338; Pelham v. Rose, 9 Wall. 106, 19 L. Ed. 602; The Josefa Se-gunda, 10 Wheat. 326, 6 L. Ed. 329
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
