The appropriation of private property without just compensation for the public use or treasury, often as a penalty resulting from a criminal prosecution or when possession of the property is itself a crime. See also condemn.
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Noun
Singular:
confiscation
Plural:
confiscations
Origin of confiscation
From Middle French confiscation.
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Confiscation Sentence Examples
Another clause protects the property of rebels against confiscation.
The land was acquired either by confiscation from disaffected states or in exchange for a lowering of tribute.
Merlin's code abolished confiscation, branding and imprisonment for life, and was based chiefly on the penal code drawn up in September 1791.
On the 30th of August General Fremont by military order declared martial law and confiscation against active enemies, with freedom to their slaves, in the State of Missouri.
Arrested by order of the National Convention in 1793, he was acquitted, but was reduced to poverty by the confiscation of his possessions.