Sequestration Of Witnesses: Keeping all witnesses (except plaintiff and defendant) out of the courtroom except for their time on the stand, and cautioning them not to discuss their testimony with other witnesses.
Sequestration
(n) Sequestration is the order issued by judge directing isolation of a person, witness, jury etc. until the conclusion of the trial, so that he cannot have access to the outside world which may influence his stand.
Sequestration:
The taking of someone's property, voluntarily (by deposit) or involuntarily (by seizure), by court officers or into the possession of a third party, awaiting the outcome of a trial in which ownership of that property is at issue.
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.
sequestration
n. the act of a judge issuing an order that a jury or witness be sequestered (kept apart from outside contacts during trial).
SEQUESTRATION, Louisiana practice. The Code of Practice in civil cases in Louisiana, defines and makes the following provisions on the subject of sequestration. Art. 269.
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.
Sequestration
The taking of someone's property by court officers or into the possession of a disinterested third party until the outcome of a trial to decide ownership of that property.
sequestration order
An order that property be seized to satisfy a debt.
serious indictable offence ...
Sequestration
Definition - Noun
1 : the act of sequestering
: the state of being sequestered
2 a : a writ authorizing an official (as a sheriff) to take into custody the property of a defendant usu.
Expanded Legal Definition of Separation AgreementSequestration The taking of someones property, voluntarily (by deposit) or involuntarily (by seizure), by court officers or into the possession of a third party, ...
Sequestration: Temporary confiscation of property by court order until the owner purges his contempt by obeying an earlier court order.
Service: Delivery of court documents by one party to the other, personally or by post.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, "August 1643: An Ordinance for Explanation of a former Ordinance for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates with some Enlargements", pp. 254-260. Date accessed: 16 March 2010 ...
Writ of Sequestration Where the property has not been delivered up under a writ of delivery, the court may order the issuance of a writ of sequestration to collect and hold any income from all or part of the property.
Deposits are again divided by the civil law into simple deposits and sequestrations; the former is when there is but one party depositor (of whatever number composed), having a common interest; the latter is where there are two or more depositors, ...
Bankruptcy is a proceeding of an equitable nature - a sequestration of a debtor's property that the creditors may resort to, instead of an ordinary suit at law or in equity. Re Weitzel, 7 Biss 290 (1876).
The same process in Scots law is called sequestration. In Scots law the term "adjudication" has quite a different meaning, being the name of that action by which a creditor attaches the heritable, i.e.
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