Law. To seize by legal authority; to place or take under the control of a court; to seize and take… transitive. With property or goods as object.

transitive. To impound (stray cattle, contraband goods, etc.); = pind, v. 1b. Now rare.

To seize or secure by legal right; to take legal or formal possession of (a document or the like) to be held in custody of the law.