Sequester - Law Dictionary Search Results
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sequester -tered -ter·ing [Anglo-French sequestrer, from Middle French, from Latin sequestrare to hand over to a trustee, from sequester third party to whom disputed property is entrusted, agent, from secus beside, otherwise] 1 : to place (as a jury or witness) in seclusion or isolation NOTE: Juries are sequestered in order to preserve their impartiality. Witnesses are sequestered so that their testimony is not influenced by the testimony of prior witnesses. 2 a : to seize esp. by a writ of sequestration b : to deposit (property) in sequestration n : sequestration ...
Sequeste
Sequeste, to renounce: to set aside from the use of the owners....
sequestration
sequestration 1 : the act of sequestering : the state of being sequestered 2 a : a writ authorizing an official (as a sheriff) to take into custody the property of a defendant usually to enforce a court order, to exercise quasi in rem jurisdiction, or to preserve the property until judgment is rendered b in the civil law of Louisiana : a deposit in which a neutral person agrees to hold property in dispute and to restore it to the party to whom it is determined to belong 3 : the cancellation of funds for expenditure or obligation in order to enforce federal budget limitations set by law ...
sequestrate
sequestrate -trat·ed -trat·ing : sequester ...
Lonely
Sequestered from company or neighbors solitary retired as a lonely situation a lonely cell...
Recluse
Shut up sequestered retired from the world or from public notice solitary living apart as a recluse monk or hermit a recluse life...
Seclusive
Tending to seclude keeping in seclusion secluding sequestering...
Sequester
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...
Sequestered
Retired secluded...
Sequestrable
Capable of being sequestered subject or liable to sequestration...
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