Sequester

Sequester
(v) Sequester is the process of isolating a person, specifically a jury commission etc.

Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
Sidebar: A conference between the judge and lawyers held out of earshot of the jury and spectators.

sequester
v. to keep separate or apart. In so-called "high-profile" criminal prosecutions (involving major crimes, events or persons given wide publicity) the jury is sometimes "sequestered" in a hotel without access to news media, ...

sequester: to separate, set apart, hold aside for safekeeping or awaiting some determination; jurors are sequestered when not permitted to return home until the case is closed ...

Sequester Settlor
To protect a jury from outside influences or information; to take a thing which is the subject of a controversy and place it in the hands of a third party for protection. Person who establishes a trust.

TO SEQUESTER, civil and eccles. law. To renounce. Example, when a widow comes into court and disclaims having anything to do, or to intermeddle with her deceased hushand's estate, she is said to sequester. Jacob, L. D. h. t.

Sequester
Definition - Transitive Verb
[Anglo-French sequestrer, from Middle French, from Latin sequestrare to hand over to a trustee, from sequester third party to whom disputed property is entrusted, agent, from secus beside, otherwise] ...

sequester - v. To separate or isolate; e.g. to sequester jurors is to isolate them from contact with the public during the course of a sensational trial.
set aside - To reverse, vacate, cancel, annul, or revoke a judgment, order, etc.

Sequestration : A sequestered jury is usually housed together at night in a hotel and prohibited from contacting people outside of the court. Sequestration rarely occurs and is meant for jurors' protection.

"Further, every night the non-sequestered civil jury went home where they were exposed to the local and nationally syndicated radio and television talk shows and also the Los Angeles Times...

sequestration: Members of a sequestered jury are usually housed together in a hotel and are not allowed to contact people outside of the court. Sequestration rarely occurs and is meant for jurors' protection.

"A sequestrator may not make any disbursement or perform any act other than acts of simple administration in respect of the sequestered property unless otherwise stipulated or unless authorized by the court...." ...

Except by leave of the bishop or sequestrator, the incumbent of a sequestered benefice cannot be presented.

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