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A legal process by virtue of which an officer of the court empowered to hold goods or property beonging to a person or body pending the settelement of a dispute or payment of a debt. In Scotland, sequestration is a procedure involving the realization of assets under the supervisons of the court and is instituted by a petition made to the court wither by the debtors or by one or more creditiors.
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means the separation or isolation of witnesses and their attorneys from other witnesses and their attorneys during an interview conducted as part of an investigation, inspection, or other inquiry.
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A written order of the court commanding the sheriff or other officer to seize the goods of a person named in the written order. Sometimes issued against a civil defendant or public employer.
Ãâó: www.courts.mo.gov/osca/index.nsf/0/8b69295b674dde2...
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The taking of someone's property, voluntarily (by deposit) or involuntarily (by seizure), by court officers into the possession of a third party, awaiting the outcome of a trial in which ownership of that property is at issue.
Ãâó: www.leanlegal.com/dictionary/s.asp
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A sequestered jury is usually housed together at night in a hotel and prohibited from contacting people outside of the court.
Ãâó: juryduty.nashville.gov/pls/portal/url/page/juryDut...
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