Sequestered

Sequeste

Sequeste, to renounce: to set aside from the use of the owners....

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 ...

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...

Retired secluded...

Sequestrable

Capable of being sequestered subject or liable to sequestration...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

Sequestrari facias de bonis ecclesiasticis, Writ of

Sequestrari facias de bonis ecclesiasticis, Writ of, a process of execution issued against a beneficed clerk commanding the bishop to enter into the rectory and parish church, and to take and sequester the same, and hold them until, of the rents, tithes, and profits thereof, and of the other ecclesiastical goods of the defendant, he has levied the plaintiffs' debt.The Rules of the Supreme Court provide that this writ may be issued and executed as theretofore: Ord. XLIII., r. 5.The Sequestration Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 45), provides that on sequestration the bishop of the diocese shall appoint a curate and assign a stipend. And see the Benefices Sequestration Measure, 1933....

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