(455) Sequester. To take a thing which is the by order of a court, and entrusting it to a subject of a controversy, out of the posthird person, to be held indifferently besession of the contending parties, and deposit it in the hands of a third person. Calv. Lex. In equity practice. To take possession of the property of a defendant, and keep the same until he shall have cleared himself of a contempt. See Sequestration. In English ecclesiastical practice. To gather the fruits of a void benefice, and keep them for the use of the next incumbent. Stat. 28 Hen. VIII. c. 11. Cowell, voc. Sequestration. To take possession of the ecclesiastical property of a defendant, and hold it until, out of the rents, tithes and profits, the plaintiff 's debt be satisfied. See Sequestrari facias. To dispose of the goods and chattels of one deceased, whose estate no man would intermeddle with. Cowell, voc. Sequestration. In international law. To seize the property of an individual, and appropriate it to public use; to confiscate. Particularly applied to the confiscation, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy. 1 Kent's Com. 62, et seq. (456) delivery of separate opinions by the judges, ❘ the king and his people, in the study, profesone after another, beginning with the junior puisne judge, and ending with the chief justice; which is done in some cases, instead of having the opinion of the court delivered by a single judge. "The court delivered their opinions seriatim." 1 Show. 172, 266. Seriatim et separatim. 2 Id. 491. (457) and reading it, or showing it and delivering a copy, &c. See Service. (458) Fleta, lib. 2, c. 37. Britt. fol. 39 b, 40, 40 b. See Serviens ad legem. A bailiff. The servientes hundredorum • (serjeants of hundreds,) are mentioned by Bracton in immediate connection with bailiffs, (ballivi.) Bract. fol. 116. A bailiff, chamberlain or receiver. Stat. Westm. 2, c. 11. Seriaunt is used by Britton to denote the bailiff, steward or attorney of a private person. Britt. fol. 50, 70, 123 b, 204. A sheriff's officer, (serviens vicecomitis.) Bract. fol. 157. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 47, § 9. Britton enumerates hundredors, serjeants, and bedels, as officers under the sheriff. Britt. fol. 2. Any ministerial officer. Fleta, lib. 2, c.71. A vassal, or feudal tenant. Spelman. A servant. Reg. Orig. 189, 190. (459) A service or servitude; a burden imposed windows or other openings in a wall beupon persons or estates for the benefit of longing to another, or in a common wall, others. Dig. 8. 1. See 1 Mackeld. Civ. in order to obtain light for one's building. Law, 319-355. Servitus prædiorum; a prædial servitude, (q. v.;) a service, burden, or charge upon one estate, (prædium) for the benefit of another. Inst. 2.3.3. Servitus prædii rustici; the servitude of a rural or country estate; a rural servitude. Inst. 2. 3. pr. & 3. Dig. 8. 3. 1 Mack. Civ. Law, 338, § 309. Servitus prædii urbani; the servitude of an urban or city estate; an urban servitude. Inst. 2. 3. 1. Dig. 8. 2. 1 Mack. Civ. Law, ub. sup. Servitus actûs; the servitude or right of walking, riding, or driving over another's ground. Inst. 2. 3, pr. 1 Mack. Civ. Law, 343, § 313. A species of right of way. See Actus. Dig. 8. 2. 4. 1 Mack. Civ. Law, 346, § 311, and Kaufmann's note, ibid. Servitus ne luminibus officiatur; a servitude not to hinder lights; the right of having one's lights or windows unobstructed or darkened by a neighbor's building, &c. Inst. 2. 3. 4. See Ancient lights. Servitus ne prospectus offendatur. A servitude not to intercept one's prospect. Dig. 8. 2. 15. Servitus oneris ferendi; the servitude of bearing weight; the right to let one's building rest upon the building, wall or pillars of one's neighbor. 1 Mack. Civ. Law, 339, § 310. Servitus pascendi; the servitude of pasturing; the right of pasturing one's cattle on another's ground; otherwise called jus pascendi. Inst. 2. 3. 2. Servitus altius non tollendi; the servitude of not building higher. A right attached to a house, by which its proprietor can prevent his neighbor from building his own house higher, (ne altius tollat ædes suas.) Inst. 2. 3. 4. Dig. 8. 2. 2. 11 Mack. Civ. Law, 340, § 311. Mack. Civ. Law, 340, § 311. See 2 Wilson & Shaw's R. 293. Servitus aquæ ducende; the servitude of leading water; the right of leading water to one's own premises, through another's land. Inst. 2. 3, pr. Called, also, aquæ ductus. Id. ibid. Servitus aquæ educendæ; the servitude of leading off water; the right of leading off the water from one's own on to another's ground. Dig. 8.3.29. 1 Mack. Civ. Law, 345, § 315. Servitus aquæ haurienda; the servitude or right of drawing water from another's spring or well. Inst. 2. 3. 2. Servitus cloacæ mittendæ; the servitude or right of having a sewer through the house or ground of one's neighbor. Dig. 8. 1. 7. Servitus fumi immittendi; the servitude or right of leading off smoke or vapor through the chimney or over the ground of one's neighbor. Dig. 8. 5. 8. 5-7. Servitus itineris; the servitude or privilege of walking, riding, and being carried over another's ground. Inst. 2. 3, pr. 1 Mack. Civ. Law, 343, § 313. A species of right of way. Servitus luminum; the servitude of lights; the right of making or having Servitus projiciendi; the servitude of projecting; the right of building a projection from one's house in the open space belonging to one's neighbor. Dig. 8. 2. 2. Servitus stillicidii; the servitude or right of drip; the right of having the water drip from the eaves of one's house upon the house or ground of one's neighbor. Inst. 2.3.1, 4. Dig. 8. 2. 2. Servitus tigni immittendi; the servitude of letting in a beam; the right of inserting beams in a neighbor's wall. Inst. 2.3.1.4. Dig. 8. 2. 2. Servitus viæ; the servitude or right of way; the right of walking, riding and driving over another's land. Inst. 2. 3, pr.