sequestrate

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But the really fatal effect of such a defeat would have been that it would no longer have been necessary for the British to sequestrate a hundred or more destroyers at Scapa Flow.

From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.

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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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 Le Notre, G., [pseud.]

Not sequestrate the income of a man who has been proved to be a thief!

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

In Freeland no one possesses this power because here no one need sequestrate the land in order that it may be tilled.

From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Hertzka, Theodor