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seguestration

Seguestration is a 13 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter N for which we found 5 definitions.

Definition
(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.
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