Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Attachment. 1. The seizing of a person's property to secure a judgment or to be sold in satisfaction of a judgment. - also termed (in civil law) provisional seizure. Cf. Garnishment; sequestration (1)

conventional sequestration

The parties' voluntary deposit of the property at issue in a lawsuit.

judicial sequestration

See SEQUESTRATION,

jury sequestration

See SEQUESTRATION (7).

sequestratio

n. [Latin] Roman law. The depositing of an object in dispute with a holder either voluntarily or by court order.

sequestration

n. 1. The process by which property is removed from the possessor pending the outcome of a dispute in which two or more parties contend for it. Cf. ATTACHMENT (1); GARNISHMENT.

writ of sequestration

A writ ordering that a court be given custody of something, or ordering that something not be taken from the jurisdiction, such as the collateral for a promissory note. ( Such a writ is usu. issued during litiga tion, often so that the object will be availabl(. for attachment or execution after judgment