† sequeˈstree Obs.
[f. sequester v. + -ee.]
= sequestrator.
| 1611 Cotgr., Gardien de biens, a Sequestree, or keeper of the goods of an indebted, or condemned person, seised by order of Law. 1765–8 Erskine Inst. Law Scot. iii. i. §30 In which case a salary to the sequestree for his trouble is either expressed or implied. 1845 S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 309 The elector of Saxony..offered to place all the suppressed convents under sequestration; the sequestrees..were to pledge themselves to the emperor to allow nothing to be abstracted from the property, till a council should decide on its application. |