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    sequestration


    1. I mentioned sequestration and filibustering earlier and both hinder progress in the system since passing laws becomes passé


    2. He just pointed out the seriousness of the situation, that under the emergency law which was in force in Egypt, strikes were unlawful and the problem had to be settled here and now or else he would put the enterprise under sequestration


    3. As for me, I sort of liked the idea of sequestration


    4. It is in vain I represent that, before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay; that I had collected no rent; that I had had recourse to no process


    5. " Then it came over me that, in spite of Flora's presumable sequestration from the instant of her return from the pool, it might already be too late


    6. Nervously, he entered with a look of someone trying to escape this perceived sequestration


    7. This day Thomas Fittz Marchant being convented before the Board for a notorious misdemeanor in imbeseling and conveying away certaine Beavor skins, out of a Warehouse wherein they were deposited by way of sequestration under lock hung on by order of the Court of Admiralty, was after examination taken of his Carriage therein, committed 13/1425to the prison of the Fleete, and it was further ordered, that the examinations taken before the Board, should be transmitted to Master Atturney Generall, who after perusall of them is hereby prayed and required to take strickt examination of the business, aswell to discover who were actors or Abettors anie way in conveying away the said goods, as to whose hands anie parte of the same either in specie or anie parte of the moneyes ariseing upon the sale of them, are come, and how the same hath bin imployed, or disposed of, and by whose direction with all such other circumstances as he shall finde requisit touching the same, and that the Messinger who hath the said Fitz in custodie doe forthwith carry him before Mr


    8. To the sixt he sayeth That the beaver and ottar skynnes now in sequestration under the lockes of the Admiraltye are the same that this examinate had by trade with the natives of Canida, and by composition from the French for victualls given them accordinge to that composition


    9. The rest of the Beavors (which with the said 1713 received from the French are still in sequestration) Wee bought of the salvagcs with our owne goodes the French themselves confessing in their depositions that wee traded for 4000 Beavors


    10. He will be neither friend nor comrade in their eyes; if he can get them to stop insulting him it will be as much as he can do, but he will be alien to them from the first to the last, he will have to feel the grief of a ceaseless, hopeless, causeless solitude and sequestration

    11. I should not believe it possible, if I had rich cargoes under sequestration in France, that I could vote free from the bias which the jeopardy of that property would throw on my mind


    12. The embarrassments of commerce, the sequestration in France, the Danish captures—in fine, the belligerent edicts, are the obvious sources of these failures


    13. The Duke of Massa writes to the President of the Council of Prizes as follows: "In consequence of this engagement entered into by the Government of the United States, to cause their rights to be respected, His Majesty orders that all the causes that may be pending in the Council of Prizes, of captures of American vessels, made after the first of November, and those that may in future be brought before it, shall not be judged according to the principles of the decrees of Berlin and Milan, but that they shall remain suspended; the vessels captured or seized to remain only in a state of sequestration, and the rights of the proprietors being reserved for them until the 2d February next, the period at which, the United States having fulfilled the engagement to cause their rights to be respected, the said captures shall be declared null by the Council—and the American vessels restored, together with their cargoes, to the proprietors


    14. Here, sir, we find these two officers, by direction of their master, explicitly recognizing the existence of the Berlin and Milan decrees, and suspending their operation not as to sequestration, but only as to condemnation


    15. Not only those which had arrived after the first of November, but those which should thereafter arrive, were to be held in a state of sequestration, and to be subject to a special report


    16. The disposition of Bonaparte towards us rests not alone on his acts of aggression, rapine, and plunder; the imprisonment of our citizens, the burning and sequestration of our property


    17. He believed the President to have been justified in issuing his proclamation by the Duc de Cadore's letter; but as subsequent information had been received from France, the question appeared to him to resolve itself into this: Was the sequestration of our vessels from the 1st November to the 2d of February a violation of our neutral rights or not? Had the decrees been so modified, under present circumstances, as that they had ceased to violate our neutral commerce? He conceived not, and should therefore vote against the bill


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    Synonyms for "sequestration"

    requisition sequestration segregation lien garnishment expropriation attachment

    "sequestration" definitions

    the act of segregating or sequestering


    the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions


    a writ that authorizes the seizure of property


    seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized