Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seguestration \Seg`ues*tra"tion\, n. [L. sequestratio: cf. F.
   s['e]questration.]
   1.
      (a) (Civil & Com. Law) The act of separating, or setting
          aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of
          both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered
          to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be
          voluntary or involuntary.
      (b) (Chancery) A prerogative process empowering certain
          commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property
          and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he
          clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of
          the court.
      (c) (Eccl. Law) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the
          case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a
          benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt
          established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits
          of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the
          next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the
          ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will
          meddle with. --Craig. --Tomlins. --Wharton.
      (d) (Intrnat. Law) The seizure of the property of an
          individual for the use of the state; particularly
          applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of
          debts due from its subjects to the enemy. --Burrill.

   2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation;
      retirement; seclusion from society.

            Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . .
            This loathsome sequestration have I had. --Shak.

   3. Disunion; disjunction. [Obs.] --Boyle.