seguestration

• Disunion
• 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
• 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
• 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 seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state
• The state of being separated or set aside

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