seizure

• The defence was very ingenious: admitting the vessel was taken, it had never been finished; it belonged to no port; it had received no name: it was canvas, rope, boarding, and trenails, put together shipwise—yet it was not a legal ship: the seizure might be theft, but not piracy! —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2), by John West
• BADEN: Yes, a seizure is the result of some abnormal electrical discharge in the brain. —  Top Stories - Google News
• The DPS estimates the marijuana is worth $3.9 million retail and says the seizure is the second largest it's made during routine traffic enforcement since 1997. —  KGBT 4 - KGBT - News of the Rio Grande Valley
• Physicians should be aware that bupropion is associated with a risk of seizure, which is dose related.
• This seizure was the largest amount of PCP the Ohio State Highway Patrol has ever seized during a single traffic stop. drugs seized on March 12 (photo courtesy of the Ohio State Highway Patrol) —  Cincinnati Local News Headlines | WCPO.com

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