provisional seizure

PROVISIONAL SEIZURE. A term used in Louisiana, which signifies nearly the 
same as attachment of property. 
     2. It is regulated by the Code of Practice as follows, namely: Art. 
284. The plaintiff may, in certain caws, hereafter provided, obtain the 
provisional seizure of the property which he holds in pledge, or on which he 
has a privilege, in order to secure the payment of his claim. 
     3. Art. 285. Provisional seizure may be ordered in the following cases: 
1. In executory proceedings, when the plaintiff sues on a title importing 
confession of judgment. 2. When a lessor prays for the seizure of furniture 
or property used in the house, or attached to the real estate which he has 
leased. 3. When a seaman, or another person, employed on board of a ship or 
water craft, navigating within the state, or persons having furnished 
materials for, or made repairs to such ship or water craft, prays that the 
same may be seized, and prevented from departing, until he has been paid the 
amount of his claim.   
     4. When the proceedings are in rem, that is to say, against the thing 
itself, which stands pledged for the debt, when the property is abandoned, 
or in cases where the owner of the thing is unknown or absent. Vide 6 N. S. 
168; 8 N. S. 320; 7 N. S. 153; 1 Martin, R. 168; 12 Martin, R. 32.