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Sequester

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

To separate from the owner for a time to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person to seize or take possession of as property belonging to another and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken or till the owner has performed the decree of court or clears himself of contempt in international law to confiscate

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