English-Thai Dictionary

sequestration

N การ เนรเทศ  การ แยก ออก 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEQUESTRATION

n. 1. The act of taking a thing from parties contending for it, and entrusting it to an indifferent person.
2. In the civil law, the act of the ordinary, disposing of the goods and chattels of one deceased, whose estate no will meddle with.
3. The act of taking property from the owner for a time, till the rents, issues and profits satisfy a demand.
4. The act of seizing the estate of a delinquent for the use of the state.
5. Separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
6. State of being separated or set aside.
7. Disunion; disjunction. [Not in use. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SEQUESTRATION

Seq `ues *tra "tion, n. Etym: [L. sequestratio: cf. F. séquestration.]

 

1. (a ) (Civil & Com. Law ) 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. (b ) (Chancery ) 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. (c ) (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; 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. Craig. Tomlins. Wharton. (d ) (Intrnat. Law ) 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. Burrill.

 

2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, ... This loathsome sequestration have I had. Shak.

 

3. Disunion; disjunction. [Obs. ] Boyle.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sequestration

se ques tra tion |ˌsēkwiˈstrāSHən, ˌsek- ˌsikwəˈstreɪʃən | ▶noun the action of taking legal possession of assets until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met: if such court injunctions are ignored, sequestration of trade union assets will follow. • the action of taking forcible possession of something; confiscation: they demanded the sequestration of the incriminating correspondence. • an act of declaring someone bankrupt. • the action of making a general cut in government spending: the measure brings the federal budget closer to sequestration. • Chemistry the action of sequestering a substance.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sequestration

sequestration |ˌsiːkwəˈstreɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the action of sequestrating or taking legal possession of assets. 2 the action of chemically sequestering a substance: carbon sequestration.

 

Duden Dictionary

Sequestration

Se ques t ra ti on , Se ques tra ti on Substantiv, feminin , die |Sequestrati o n |1 spätlateinisch sequestratio, zu: sequestrare, sequestrieren Rechtssprache Verwaltung von etwas durch einen Sequester 1 2 Medizin Abstoßung eines Sequesters 3

 

French Dictionary

séquestration

séquestration n. f. nom féminin Détention illégale d ’une personne. : La séquestration des otages au Liban. SYNONYME emprisonnement . Note Orthographique s é questration.