Seizure (disambiguation)

Seizure may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Law

  • Descriptive seizure (also called "Anton Piller order" in the UK and "saisie-contrefaçon" in France), a court order to search premises and seize and/or describe evidence without prior warning
  • Seizure (law enforcement), when an authority takes possession of an object until a case is resolved
  • Distraint, the seizure of property to attain an owed payment

Medicine

Other uses

  • Seizure, the act of a communications circuit going off-hook