Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Sequester

ub. 1. To seize (property) by a writ of sequestration. 2. To segregate or isolate (a jury or witness) during trial. - Also termed sequestrate.

sequester

n. 1. An across-theboard cut in government spending. 2. A person with whom litigants deposit property being contested until the case has concluded; a sequestrator.

sequestered account

An account (such as a joint bank account) that a court has ordered to be separated, frozen, and impounded.

sequestered account.

See ACCOUNT

sequesterer.

See SEQUESTRATOR.