Sequestration - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: sequestrationsequestrator
sequestrator 1 : an official who executes a writ of sequestration 2 : someone who holds property in sequestration ...
sequestrate
sequestrate -trat·ed -trat·ing : sequester ...
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 ...
Sequestrable
Capable of being sequestered subject or liable to sequestration...
Sequestration
Sequestration. This is a prerogative process (formerly confined to the Court of Chancery and the Courts of Probate and Divorce), addressed to certain commissioners empowering them to enter upon real estates, and sequester the rents, and upon the goods, chattels, and personal estate of a person in contempt for disobedience of a decree or order, and keep the same until the defendant clear his contempt. It has no return, and is granted upon a return of non est inventus by the sergeant-at-arms, or by a sheriff on an attachment, 1 Eq. Rep. 261. See R.S.C. Ord. XLIII., r. 6. It is the mode of enforcing an order against a corporation in the case of the ordr having been 'wilfully disobeyed.' See R.S.C. Ord. XLII., r. 31, and Stancomb v. Trowbridge Urban Council, (1910) 2 Ch 190....
Sequestration of a benefice
Sequestration of a benefice. See SEQUESTRARI FACIAS....
sequester
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 ...
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....
Sequestro habendo
Sequestro habendo, a judicial writ for the discharging a sequestration of the profits of a church benefice, granted by the bishop at the sovereign's command, thereby to compel the parson to appear at the suit of another; upon his appearance, the parson may have this writ for the release of the sequestration, Reg. Judic. 36....
deposit
deposit 1 : to place for safekeeping or as security [may the property with the court] ;esp : to put in a bank account 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : to place (movable property) under a deposit [the depository can not make use of the thing ed "Louisiana Civil Code"] de·pos·i·tor [di-pÄ -zə-tər] n n 1 : the state of being deposited (as in an account) [holding the property on ] compare escrow, trust 2 : something placed for safekeeping: as a : money deposited in a bank esp. to one's credit demand deposit : a bank deposit that can be withdrawn without prior notice general deposit : a deposit of money in a bank that is to the credit of the depositor thereby giving the depositor the right to money and creating a debtor-creditor relationship special deposit : a deposit that is made for a specific purpose, that is to be returned to the depositor, and that creates a bailment or trust time deposit : a bank deposit that can be withdrawn only after a...
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