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The commissary is warned not to sequestrate the property of the accused, but to see that it be administered by some capable person.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

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 M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"But, my dear, I cannot sequestrate the man's income."

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

They have, besides, possessions in Belgium, Piedmont, and Italy, which I intend to sequestrate.

From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot

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

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

After the revolution of 1831, more than 423,000 peasants were sequestrated to the crown.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell

It is well that where they are first sequestrated there they should be permanently kept.

From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns

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 had actually served as one of the King's Commissioners for sequestrating the estates of Parliamentarians in three English counties.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

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

Cardinal Frederick alone enjoined his curates to impress upon the people the importance of declaring every case, and of sequestrating all infected or suspected goods.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

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