Seizure
111Writ Of Seizure And Sale — A court order that permits a creditor to instruct a sheriff to seize and sell assets/property of a debtor in order to pay off a debt. To get the debtor s property sold, or to put a lien on it, the creditor must obtain a writ of seizure and sale… …
112goods subject to seizure — index contraband Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
113adversive seizure — a type of focal motor seizure in which there is forceful, sustained turning to one side by the head, eyes, or entire body …
114atonic seizure — an absence seizure characterized by sudden loss of muscle tone …
115automatic seizure — a type of complex partial seizure characterized by automatisms, often ambulatory and involving quasipurposive acts …
116clonic seizure — a rare kind of seizure in which there are generalized clonic contractions without a preceding tonic phase …
117complex partial seizure — a type of partial seizure characterized by varying degrees of impairment of consciousness; the patient performs automatisms and later may be amnesic for them. An attack is often preceded by an aura. See also temporal lobe epilepsy …
118focal motor seizure — a simple partial seizure consisting of clonus or spasm of a muscle or muscle group; it may be single or in a continuous and repetitive series (see epilepsia partialis continua) or may spread to adjacent muscles (see jacksonian epilepsy) …
119generalized tonic-clonic seizure — the seizure of grand mal epilepsy, consisting of a loss of consciousness and generalized tonic convulsions followed by clonic convulsions …
120myoclonic seizure — a seizure characterized by a brief episode of myoclonus, with immediate recovery and often without loss of consciousness …
