sequestrate
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The independent Municipal Self-Governments have the right to sequestrate all unoccupied or uninhabited dwelling-places.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
“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
They sequestrate our manifestos, they forbid meetings and conferences, they pry into our postal correspondence.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
So that her children should not be deprived of their father's fortune, which the nation could sequestrate as the property of an émigré, Mme. de Vaubadon, like many other royalists, had sued for a divorce.
From The House of the Combrays by G. Le Notre
Not sequestrate the income of a man who has been proved to be a thief!
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
When the countship of Mansfeld was sequestrated, Hettstedt came into the possession of Saxony, passing to Prussia in 1815.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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
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
Besides, everything regarding the certificate and sequestrating of Clear had been quite legal.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
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
