sequestrate
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Suppose, my dear Sir, they should proceed to arrest you, or to sequestrate the revenue of your vicarage.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
“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
"But, my dear, I cannot sequestrate the man's income."
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Desire had laughed and promised to sequestrate Yorick for the afternoon.
From The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
But if he escape conviction, you must sequestrate the living because of the debts.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
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
The revenues of the English sees which were occupied by Campeggio and Ghinucci he sequestrated, as a sign of the abandonment of a detestable system.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude
Article 13 Fraudulent copies to be sequestrated, etc.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker
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
For two years Ingle ruled and plundered, sequestrating goods of the Proprietary's adherents, and deporting in irons Jesuit priests.
From Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings by Mary Johnston
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
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
