sequestrate

But if he escape conviction, you must sequestrate the living because of the debts.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

As it stood on paper, simply to take possession of the ports of Mexico, and sequestrate their customs to pay the interest on foreign debts.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

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

He commissioned them and the chief alguazil of Valladolid to seize the person of the archbishop, to sequestrate his goods, and draw up an inventory of them.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente

Our subject is not entirely to sequestrate the prisoner nor to confine him to absolute solitude.

From Elizabeth Fry by Mrs. E. R. Pitman

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

His effects were sequestrated, and a day of sale announced.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

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

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

He did not distinguish himself, one of his earliest acts being to urge the promulgation of the above-mentioned decree sequestrating the property of all who were then opposed to the new order of things.

From Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson

These later years seem to have been the hey-day of the Loyalists in most of the Colonies, although the Patriots passed severe laws against them, sequestrating their property and even banishing them.

From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer

"We have no excuse for sequestrating the estates," replied Ireton.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

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