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seal 1 C0184600 (sēl)n.1. a. A device or material that is used to close off or fasten an opening or connection, especially to prevent the escape of a liquid or gas: used caulk as a seal around the window.b. An airtight closure: a door that lacks a tight seal.c. Something, such as a piece of tape, that is placed on a product or package to show that the contents have not been tampered with.d. The water in the trap of a drain that prevents sewer gas from escaping into a room.2. a. A design used to identify a person or thing or to show that something is authentic, accurate, or of good quality: The title page is marked with the publisher's seal. Does the scale have the inspector's seal?b. A small decorative paper sticker.3. a. A die or signet having a raised or incised emblem used to stamp an impression on a receptive substance such as wax or lead.b. The impression so made.c. The design or emblem itself, belonging exclusively to the user: a monarch's seal.d. A small disk or wafer of wax, lead, or paper bearing such an imprint and affixed to a document to prove authenticity or to secure it.4. An indication or symbol regarded as guaranteeing or authenticating something: The choral director gave the program his seal of approval.tr.v. sealed, seal·ing, seals 1. a. To close or fasten with a seal: seal an envelope; seal a test tube.b. To prevent (a liquid or gas) from escaping: Charring a piece of meat seals in the juices.c. To cover, secure, or fill up (an opening): sealed the hole in the pipe with epoxy.d. To apply a waterproof coating to: seal a blacktop driveway.e. To secure or prevent passage into and out of (an area). Often used with off: The police sealed off the crime scene.2. To affix a seal to (something) in order to prove authenticity, accuracy, or quality.3. To establish or determine irrevocably: Our fate was sealed.4. Mormon Church To make (a marriage, for example) eternally binding; solemnize forever.Idioms: (one's) lips are sealed Used to indicate that one will not disclose a piece of information. under seal Having an impression or emblem attesting to a document's authenticity and reliability.
[Middle English, die or signet for stamping an impression, from Old French seel, from Vulgar Latin *sigellum, from Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum, sign, seal; see sekw- in Indo-European roots.]
seal′a·ble adj.
seal 2 C0184600 (sēl)n.1. Any of various aquatic carnivorous mammals of the families Phocidae and Otariidae, found chiefly in cold regions and having a sleek torpedo-shaped body and limbs that are modified into paddlelike flippers.2. The pelt or fur of one of these animals, especially a fur seal.3. Leather made from the hide of one of these animals.intr.v. sealed, seal·ing, seals To hunt seals.
[Middle English sele, from Old English seolh.]Seals
sigillographythe study of seals. — sigillographer, n. — sigillographic, adj.sphragisticsthe scientific study of seals and signet rings. — sphragistic, adj.EncyclopediaSeesealSeals
Related to Seals: Easter SealsSEALS, matters of succession. On the death of a person, according to the laws of Louisiana, if the heir wishes to obtain the benefit of inventory, and the delays for deliberating, he is bound as soon as he knows of the death of the deceased to whose succession he is called, and before committing any act of heirship, to cause the seals to be affixed on the effects of the succession, by any judge or justice of the peace. Civ. Code, of Lo. art. 1027.
2. In ten days after this affixing of the seals, the, heir is bound to present a petition to the judge of the place in which the succession, is opened, praying for the removal of the seals, and that a true and faithful inventory of the effects of the succession be made. Id. art. 1028.
3. In case of vacant estates, and estates of which the heirs are absent and not represented, the seals, after the decease, must be affixed by a judge or justice of the peace within the limits of his jurisdiction, and may be fixed by him, either ex officio, or at the request of the parties. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 1070. The seals are affixed at the request of the parties, when a widow, a testamentary executor, or any other person who pretends to have an interest in a succession or community of property, requires it. Id. art. 1071.; They are affixed ex officio, when the presumptive heirs of the deceased do not all reside in the place where be died, or if any of them happen to be absent. Id. art 1072.
4. The object of placing the seals on the effects of a succession, is for the purpose of preserving them, and for the interest of third persons. Id. art. 1068.
5. The seals must be placed on the bureaus, coffers, armoires, and other things, which contain the effects and papers of the deceased, and on the doors of the apartments which contain these things, so that they cannot be opened without tearing off, breaking, or altering the seals. Id. art. 1069.
6. The judge or justice of the peace, who affixes the seals, is bound to appoint guardian, at the expense of the succession, to take care of the seals and of the effects, of which an account is taken at the end of the proces verbal of the affixing of the seals; the guardian must be domiciliated in the place where the inventory is taken. Id. art. 1079. And the judge; when he retires, must take with him the keys of all things and apartments upon which the seals have been affixed. lb.
7. The raising of the seals is done by the judge of the place, or justice of the peace appointed by him to that effect, in the presence of the witnesses of the vicinage, in the same manner as for the affixing of the seals. Id. art. 1084. See, generally; Benefit of Inventory, Succession; Code de Pro. Civ. 2e part. lib. 1, t. 1, 2, 3; Dict. de Jurisp. Scelle. SEALS
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