\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.