• (n.) Disunion; disjunction. • (n.) 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. • (n.) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particula...
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1. 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. ... 2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. 'Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequest...
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