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SEMITA Definition & Legal Meaning

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of restitution pronounces upon the act as having been not a valid act of capture, but an act of temporary seizure only. Appleton v. Crown- inshield, 3 Mass. 443. In the law of copyholds. Seizure Is where the lord of copyhold lands takes pos- session of them in default of a tenant. It is either seizure quounque or absolute seizure.

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