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Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
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sequestration
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Word definitions for sequestration in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sequestration (in law) is the act of removing, separating, or seizing anything from the possession of its owner under process of law for the benefit of creditors or the state.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sequestration \Seq`ues*tra"tion\, n. [L. sequestratio: cf. F. s['e]questration.] (Civil & Com. Law) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Late Latin sequestrationem (nominative sequestratio ) "a depositing," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin sequestrare (see sequester ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury" [syn: segregation ] [ant: integration ] the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions a writ ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process or act of sequestering. 2 (context medicine English) Protective sequestration: quarantine measures to contain infection among the population.
Usage examples of sequestration.
Kelven had said to her, about the possible use of sequestration and river-boats that might have already brought a preliminary platoon of invaders to Durringham.
The Confederation Navy office thinks they are using some kind of sequestration technology to turn colonists into a slave army.
We can see about removing the sequestration nanonics from people later.
The solution to this sequestration lies in discovering the method by which it is implemented, and devising a counter.
There is no visible evidence of sequestration, certainly not over a communication channel.
He is to go into banishment for five years, but his estates shall suffer no sequestration, and at the end of that period he may return and enjoy them - we hope with better loyalty than in the past.
The two levers of geoengineering, he said, carbon sequestration and albedo control, were actually independent of each other.
Then the governor consented to the sequestration, and paid to the Poles and Muscovites four hundred thousand rix dollars, to indemnify them for the expense of the siege.
Although all the attorneys had some reservations about sequestration, only one strongly opposed it: Irving Kanarek.
Ever suspicious that the sequestration was not effective, he asked that the jurors be voir dired to see if any had heard the news.
They had been locked up for over eight months, the longest sequestration of any jury in American history.
Thus, ocean-bottom sequestration does appear to be one way of getting rid of the gas for substantial periods of time.
MBARI team that conducted the sequestration trial also monitored the impact on deep-sea creatures.
They had wholly failed if their hope was to break him down by such sequestration, for he was eagerly awaiting the next message from Amyitis.
Her conversation was lively, and rather bold, not at all in the coarse sense, but she struck me as having formed a system of ethics and views of life, both good-humoured and sarcastic, and had carried into her rustic sequestration the melancholy and precocious lore of her early London experience.