PROVISIONAL SEIZTIRE. In Louisiana. A term which signifies nearly the same as attachment of property.
It is regulated by the Code of Practice as follows, namely : The plaintiff may, in certain cases, here after provided, obtain the provisional seizure of the property which he holds in pledge, or on which he has a privilege, in order to secure a payment of his claim. La. Code, art. 284. Provisional seizure may be ordered in the following cases : first, in executory proceed ings, when the plaintiff sues on a title im porting confession of judgment ; second, when a lessor prays for the seizure of furni ture or property used in the house, or attached to the real estate which he has leased; third, when a seaman, or other person, employed on board of a ship or water craft, navigating within the state, or person having furnished materials for or made repairs to such ship or water craft, prays that the same may be seized, and prevented frorn departing, until he has been paid the amount of his claim; fourth, 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 +Eng is unknown or absent. La. Code, art. 285. See 6 Mart. La. N. s. 168 ; 7 id. 153, 8 id. 320 ; 1 Mart. La. 168 ; 12 id. 32. PROVISIONS. Food for man ; victutils. As good provisions contribute so much to the health and comfort of man, the law re quires that they shall be vrholesome : he who sells unwholesome provisions may, therefore, be punished for a misdemeanor. 2 East, Pl. Cr. 822 ; 6 East, 133-141 ; 3 Maule & S. 10 ; 4 id. 214 ; 4 Campb. 10.
And in the sale of provisions the rule is that the seller impliedly warrants that they are wholesome. 3 Sharswood, Blackst. Comm. 166.