Confiscation meaning

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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The act or process of confiscating.
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Origin of confiscation

  • From Middle French confiscation.
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Confiscation Sentence Examples

  • The land was acquired either by confiscation from disaffected states or in exchange for a lowering of tribute.

  • This was a period of military tribunals, dragooning, wholesale T Bach confiscation 'and all manner of brutalities.'

  • In 1867 King George had agreed to accept Prussian bonds to the value of about 1,600,000 as compensation for the confiscation of his estates in Hanover.

  • While Chrysostom disapproved of the execution of heretics, he approved "the prohibition of their assemblies and the confiscation of their churches."

  • He now fled to Russia, where he was interned at Kaluga, while at home he was condemned to confiscation and death as a traitor, and his unjustly accused mistress Magdalena Rudenschold was publicly whipped to gratify an old grudge of the regent's.

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