SEQUESTRATION, in the Civil Law, is the act of the ordinary, disposing of the goods and chattels of one deceased, whose estate no man will meddle with.
A widow is also said to sequester, when she disclaims having any thing to do with the estate of her deceased husband.
Among the Romanists, in questions of marriage, where the wife complains of impotency in the husband, she is to be sequestered into a convent, or into the hands of matrons, till the process be determined.