Sequester - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: sequester Page: 2Recluse
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...
Sequestered
Retired secluded...
Sequestrable
Capable of being sequestered subject or liable to sequestration...
Sequestrator
One who sequesters property or takes the possession of it for a time to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits...
Abandun, or Abandum
Abandun, or Abandum, anything sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned. Abandon, i.e., in bannum res missa, a thing banned or denounced as forfeited or lost, whence to abandon, desert, or forsake, as lost and gone, Cowel. Pasquier thinks it a coalition of a ban donner, to give up to a proscription, in which sense it signifies the band of the empire. Ban in the old dialect, signifies a curse; and co abandon, if considered as compounded of French and Saxon, is exactly equivalent to diris devovere. Consult Du Cange....
Distringas
Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:-(1) a distringas to compel appearance, where defendant had a place of residence within England or Wales. The writ was abolished by the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 24, and the practice provided for by s. 17 substituted in its stead.(2) A distringas nuper vicecomitem, to compel the late sheriff to sell goods, etc., or to bring in the body.(3) A distringas in detinue, a special writ of execution to compel defendant to deliver the goods by repeated distresses of his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to be, to show cause why they should not be delivered; and if the defendant still continued obstinate, then (if the judgment had been by default or on demurrer) the sheriff summoned an inquest to ascertain the value of ...
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