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Procedure on sequestration of real or personal property - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 783

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     § 783.  Procedure on sequestration of real or personal property.
        A writ of sequestration of real or personal property of an
     estate or trust, or of the respondent, to enforce an order or
     decree of the orphans' court division in the administration of
     the estate or trust shall be allowed by the orphans' court
     division as fully as in any court of equity, and shall be
     directed to and executed by the sheriff of the county in which
     the court or branch of the court is located or of any county
     where property to be sequestered is located. The orphans' court
     division, by general rule or special order, may prescribe the
     practice relating to sequestration of real and personal
     property. To the extent not provided for by general rule or
     special order, the practice relating to sequestration shall
     conform to the practice in the division of the court having
     jurisdiction over actions at law.

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