In law, a writ authorizing a law-enforcement official to take into custody the property of a defendant in order to enforce a judgment or to preserve the property until a judgment is rendered. In some civil-law jurisdictions, contested property may be deposited with a third party until it is determined to whom it properly belongs
seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
Removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere by plants or technological measures The Strategy is concerned with carbon sequestration which is defined by the IPCC as the process through which carbon is absorbed by biomass such as trees, soils and crops
A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with
Removal of greenhouses gases from the atmosphere by plants or technological measures The Strategy is concerned with carbon sequestration which is defined by the IPCC as the process through which carbon is absorbed by biomass such as trees, soils and crops
A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court
The cancellation of budgetary resources available for a fiscal year in order to enforce the discretionary spending limits and pay-as-you-go procedures in that year Pursuant to procedures set forth in the Deficit Control Act, a sequestration is triggered if the Office of Management and Budget determines that budget authority or outlays provided in appropriation acts exceed the discretionary spending limits or that enacted legislation affecting direct spending and receipts increases the deficit or reduces the surplus Discretionary spending in excess of any of the limits would cause the cancellation of budgetary resources within the applicable discretionary spending programs Changes in direct spending and receipts that increase the deficit or reduce the surplus would result in reductions in direct spending not otherwise exempt by law See direct spending, discretionary spending limits, and pay-as-you-go
The capacity to absorb carbon dioxide out of the air through the process of photosynthesis
Scientists' fancy way of saying removal We generally now see this term used in the context of "carbon capture and sequestration," where carbon refers to the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide
The reaction of an inorganic compound, attaching itself to water hardness particles, and inactivating them so that they do not combine with other material in the water and settle out
seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized a writ that authorizes the seizure of property the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions
The cancellation of expenditures previously approved by the budgeting process Sequestration may occur in response to the enactment of appropriations that cause a breach in the discretionary spending limits or the enactment of spending legislation that causes a net increase in the deficit
{i} isolation, seclusion; segregation, separation; temporary seizure of property pending the outcome of a legal claim (Law); formation of a sequestrum, formation of a piece of dead tissue that has detached from the surrounding healthy tissue (Medicine)