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seques·tra·tion
\ˌsēkwə̇ˈstrāshən, (ˌ)sēˌkweˈs-, sə̇ˌkweˈs-, ˌsekwə̇ˈs-\ noun
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Etymology: Middle English sequestracion, from Late Latin sequestration-, sequestratio, from sequestratus (past participle of sequestrare to remove, separate) + -ion-, -io -ion — more at sequester
1.
a. : an act or instance of cutting off : exclusion, separation
< forced into retirement by parliamentary sequestration — Douglas Bush >
b. : the quality or state of being sequestered : isolation, seclusion
< lonely sequestration on an island — Time >
2. : the separation or removal of property from a person in possession of it in order that the property or the proceeds thereof may be dealt with as a court or other competent authority may direct: as
a. : the authorization of a sheriff or commissioners to take into custody the property of a defendant who is in contempt or its rents and profits until he complies with the orders of a court
b. English eccl law : an attachment of a vacant benefice usually granted by a bishop to church wardens for the management of its offices during the vacancy
c. civil law : a deposit whereby a neutral depositary agrees to hold property in litigation and to restore it to the party to whom it is adjudged to belong
d. Scots law : the appropriation of the property of a bankrupt in order to divide it among his creditors
e. international law : the seizure of the property of an individual for use by the state; especially : the seizure by a belligerent power of debts due from its subjects to the enemy or of property subject to the right of preemption
f. probate law : the subjection of a renounced interest to judicial management for distribution as the testator would have desired if he had had in mind the renunciation of the interest he tried to create
3. : a seizure of property especially by public authority : confiscation
< the taxation and sequestration he suffered during and after the Civil War … brought him into debt — J.B.Leishman >
4. : the formation of a sequestrum
5. : the process of sequestering or result of being sequestered
< in soils various minor elements such as copper, zinc, and manganese are applied in organic complex sequestration form so as to be kept from the normal precipitation reaction in soils — M.L.Jackson > |