sequestrate
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Grimes had hinted to his friend how easy it would be to sequestrate this money without Morrell knowing it.
From The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City by Amy Bell Marlowe
They told her that Lord Carse found himself compelled, for family reasons, to sequestrate her.
From The Billow and the Rock by E.J. Wheeler
“My father is my father; but Joseph is just as much my uncle as he’s yours; and you have no right to sequestrate his person.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
"To use his influence over Major Dabney to sequestrate, absolutely sequestrate, a full third of our property!"
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
They sequestrate our manifestos, they forbid meetings and conferences, they pry into our postal correspondence.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
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
I don't know that a stable can be considered a dwelling under the homestead regulations, and there's nothing to prevent any man from hiring assistance to drive home sequestrated cattle.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss
All his property was sequestrated, and his money and jewels were secured within the treasury.
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
A law was enacted sequestrating "the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies."
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
"We have no excuse for sequestrating the estates," replied Ireton.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
In her distress lest Jim should take too much, the claimant of his name and protection had evidently been sequestrating a large share for herself.
From Waring's Peril by Charles King
In the meanwhile, the Supreme Civil Court issued a warrant, sequestrating the property of Jean Key, or Wright, which removed out of the reach of the actors in the violence the prize which they expected.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
