Seguestration is a 13 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter N for which we found 5 definitions.
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(n.) 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. |
(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.) 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. |
(n.) 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. |
(n.) The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. |