in commerce, an arrest of some merchandise, moveable, or other matter, either in consequence of some law, or some express order of the sovereign. Contraband goods, those fraudulently entered, or landed without entering at all, or at wrong places, are subject to seizure.

SEJANT, a term used in heraldry, when a lion or other beast is drawn in an escutcheon sitting like a cat with his fore-feet straight.

SEJANUS, Julius, a native of Vulsinum, in Tuscany, who distinguished himself in the court of Tiberius, against whom he formed a conspiracy, and was by the senate condemned to death, and strangled.

SEJUR, a small river of Syria, which rises a little to the north of Antakia, and, after a course of about thirty miles, loses itself in the ground. It is also the name of a small town in Syria, fifteen miles south of Antakia.