'Sequestration' definitions:
Definition of 'sequestration'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury" [syn: segregation, sequestration] [ant: desegregation, integrating, integration]
noun
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
noun
A writ that authorizes the seizure of property
noun
Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized [syn: sequestration, requisition]
Definition of 'Sequestration'
From: GCIDE
- Sequestration \Seq`ues*tra"tion\, n. [L. sequestratio: cf. F. s['e]questration.] 1. (a) (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 one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary. (b) (Chancery) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court. (c) (Eccl. Law) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with. --Craig. --Tomlins. --Wharton. (d) (Internat. Law) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. [1913 Webster]
- Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Disunion; disjunction. [Obs.] --Boyle. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]