Sequestration
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Sequestration
☑️ This definition is part of the content of Lawi's courses, guides, tools and other solutions and the world's leading and largest online law dictionary. It offers legal definitions, synonyms, word origins, translations, meanings, example sentences, and more. It is considered a trusted authority, a broad glossary of legal terms and an unsurpassed guide for professionals, students and researchers in any discipline related to law and, in general, to the social sciences. Do you like what you read? Can I ask a favor from you? Like and share it with your family and friends so that others can discover it too. If you have been forwarded this text, please subscribe here.
Meanings, Synonyms, Etymology, Translations and More
Meaning of Sequestration
The writ of sequestration was an extraordinary remedy available to the court of chancery to enforce a judgment. A person who did not comply with a judgment of the Court of Chancery was held to be in contempt of that court and his personal property as well as the rents and profits of his real estate were taken by an officer of the court known as the sequestrator, as a means of coercing or compelling his obedience to the order of the court by keeping him out of the possession of his property. since it is an extraordinary and a drastic remedy, it is only to be employed as a last resort and after ordinary procedure for the recovery of the judgment debt is unavailing. Parker v Grammer, 62 N. C. 28; Van Gilder v Van Gilder, 119 W. Va. 211, 193 S.E. 342. Sequestration proceedings are in rem when directed against specific property, real or personal, as distinguished from a general levy on the debtors property under an execution in an action in personam. See Stewart v Stewart, 1 IlI.App.2d 283, 117 N.E.2d 579.
Sequestration Alternative Definition
In Chancery Practice, A remedy by writ for the taking of property, and the rents and profits thereof, either to enforce a decree, 19 Ency, of PI, & Pr, 640, or to preserve the subject matter of the suit. See 3 Bl. Comm, 444, The writ issued sometimes to the sheriff, but usually to four or more commissioners. While the remedy is now practically superseded by executions against real estate, receivership proceedings and kindred remedies, it has not been abolished or prohibited and may be resorted to whenever it is deemed necessary. 19 Ency. of PI. & Pr. 540. See 6 Fed. 766; 11 Paige (N, Y.) 603. In Contracts. A species of deposits which two or more persons, engaged in litigation about anything, make of the thing in contest with an indifferent person, who binds himself to restore it, when the issue is decided, to the party to whom it is adjudged to belong. Code La. art. 2942; Story, Bailm. § 45. See 19 Viner, Abr. 325; 1 Vern. 58, 420; 2 Ves. Jr. 23. In Louisiana. A mandate of the court, ordering the sheriff, in certain cases, to take into his possession, and to keep, a thing of which another person has the possession, until after the decision of a suit, in order that it be delivered to him who shall be adjudged entitled to have the property or possession of that thing. This is what is properly called a "judicial sequestration." See 1 Mart. (La.) 79; 1 La. 439; Civ. Code La. arts. 2941, 2948. In this acceptation, the word "sequestration" does not mean a "judicial deposit," because sequestration may exist together with the right of administration, while mere deposit does not admit it.
Synonyms of Sequestration
noun
annexation
appropriation
attachment
confiscation
deprivation
displacement
distraint
distress
divestment
execution
garnishment
impoundage
impoundment
impressment
levy
seizure
takeover
Related Entries of Sequestration in the Lawi Project
Browse or run a search for Sequestration in the legal resources (including dictionaries and American law definitions), the Asian legal platform, the European law platform, the British legal resources or the Latin American and Spanish platform and publications (Lawi) about law in the world.
Sequestration in Historical Law
You might be interested in the historical meaning of this term. Browse or search for Sequestration in historical law and the evolution of legal systems (study).
Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms
Search for legal acronyms and/or abbreviations containing Sequestration in the Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary.
Related Legal Terms
You might be also interested in these legal terms:
Mentioned in these terms
Browse
You might be interested in these references tools, listed by resource (with its description) here:
Sequestration in the Dictionary: Sequestration in our legal dictionaries
Browse the Legal Thesaurus: Find synonyms and related words of Sequestration
Legal Maxims: Maxims are established principles that jurists use as interpretive tools, invoked more frequently in international law
Legal Answers (Q&A): A community-driven knowledge creation process, of enduring value to a broad audience
Related topics: Sequestration in this project about law in the world (Lawi)
Notice
This definition of Sequestration is based on the The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary. This entry needs to be proofread.
Vocabularies (Semantic Web Information)
Learn from the following resources (with their descriptions):
Topic Map: A group of names, occurrences and associations
Topic Tree: A topic display format, showing the hierarchy
Sitemap Index: Sitemap Index, including Taxonomies
https://legaldi ctionary.lawin.org/sequestration/: The URI of Sequestration (more about URIs)
Sequestration
Sequestration