sequestrate
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His creditors were willing enough to wait, but one rascal refused to do so, and swore he would sequestrate him.
From The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"But, my dear, I cannot sequestrate the man's income."
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Her Majesty the Queen of Holland has given orders to her warships temporarily to sequestrate and place an embargo upon all vessels of the Venezuelan Government.
From International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
Our subject is not entirely to sequestrate the prisoner nor to confine him to absolute solitude.
From Elizabeth Fry by Mrs. E. R. Pitman
Under these circumstances, Mr. Carter was able to enter into Clement's views, and sequestrate himself for a short period for the more deliberate investigation of the Winchester business.
From Henry Dunbar A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Looking back, Khodorkovsky thinks his mistake was to acknowledge that Yukos could be sequestrated from him, but he did not anticipate its destruction.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
The bill and the subsequent legal costs saw the debt soar to a reported £30,000 and in 2000 Mrs Van Overwaele was sequestrated - the Scottish legal term for being made legally bankrupt.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2022
The proposed jurors were interviewed anonymously, and those selected will remain so – and sequestrated for the duration of the trial, expected to last several months.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2018
It is well that where they are first sequestrated there they should be permanently kept.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns
As soon as a suspected heretic was cited or arrested the secular officials sequestrated his property and notified his debtors by proclamation.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
The grant will help fund the conservation and breeding of tropical forage grasses with deep roots for sequestrating carbon in soil.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2022
There is ground for seizure, the Article adds, and for sequestrating a work, if the printer does not produce the receipts of the deposit ordered by the preceding Article.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
And the other was his greed in taking and sequestrating the revenues of Holy Church, to squander them evilly.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
He had actually served as one of the King's Commissioners for sequestrating the estates of Parliamentarians in three English counties.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
"We have no excuse for sequestrating the estates," replied Ireton.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
