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(Sesure,) Seisure, Seasure, n. Also: seas(s)our, seazure, -our, cesar. [e.m.E. seasur (1482), seissure (1492), seasour (1545), ceazure (1592); Ses(e v.¹] a. The confiscation or seizure (of goods). b. The arrest (of a person).a. 1667 Conv. Burghs III 595.
That no such unjust seasure be maid wpon the goods of Scottishmen 1676 Glasgow Chart. II 202.
Importing of prohibited guids viz. seazour of the guids and esheat of the importars moveables 1677 Edinb. B. Rec. X 292.
Seassour 1680 Glasgow Chart. II 210.
Seasour 1683 Elgin Rec. I 333.
Baillies to goe through ther severall quarters this week … searching … for … combustabill maitter and … to mak cesar therof to the officers 1689 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 450.
Thomas M^cJarro … to deliver … the salt beiff taken from … the French ship … and … the … comissar generall to satisfie the surveyer for his usuall share of the seasure 1693 Laing MSS 476.
Treasonable paper found … upon seazure of his wrytts by authority 1701 New Mills Manuf. 274.
A seisure of fourty packs of … woollb. 1686 Rec. of Old Tolbooth in Bk. Old Edinb. C. XII 192.
That [he] … be sett at liberty and left in the same circumstances … as … before his committment or seazure