Sequestrator

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sequestrator \Seq"ues*tra`tor\, n. [L., one that hinders or
     impedes.] (Law)
        (a) One who sequesters property, or takes the possession
            of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents
            or profits.
        (b) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is


            committed.
            [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SEQUESTRATOR. One to whom a sequestration is made. 
       2. A depositary of this kind cannot exonerate himself from the care of 
  the thing sequestered in his hands, unless for some cause rendering it 
  indispensable that he should resign his trust. Louis. Code, art. 2947. See 
  Stakeholder. Sequestrators are also officers appointed by a court of 
  chancery, and named in a writ of sequestration. As to their powers and 
  duties, see 2 Madd. Ch. Pr. 205, 6; Blake's Ch. Pr. 103; Newl. Ch. Pr. 18, 
  19; 1 Harr. Ch. 191.