Sequester

se-kwes'ter, v. t. [-teked (-terd), -tering.] (Law.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take po e ion of (property belonging to another) and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till he has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt. To take from or set aside from (parties in controversy) and put into the po e ion of an indifferent person; to set apart, separate from other things; to seclude, withdraw.— v. i. {Law.) To renounce, as a widow, any concern with the estate of her husband. — Seques'trate, v. t. To sequester. — Seq'uestra'tion, sek'wes-tra's hun, re. (Civil & Common Law.) Act of separating or setting aside a thing in controversy from the po e ion of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. (Chancery.) A prerogative proce empowering certain commi ioners to take and hold a defendant's property, and receive the rents and profits thereof, till he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court. (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. (International Law.) The seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due fr. its subjects to the enemy. State of being separated or set aside; retirement; seclusion from society. — Sequestrator, n. One who sequesters property; one to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.