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Seguestrationnoun
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
Seguestrationnoun
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
Seguestrationnoun
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
Seguestrationnoun
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
Seguestrationnoun
the state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society
Seguestrationnoun
disunion; disjunction
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of seguestration in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of seguestration in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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