transitive. To escheat (property or goods); to confiscate.

transitive. To confiscate for the royal treasury.

transitive. To confiscate.

transitive. To seize, take, or capture, esp. in war; to confiscate. Obsolete.

To confiscate, appropriate, to take forcible possession of.

transitive. To appropriate (private property) to the sovereign or the public treasury by way of penalty.

Extensions or loose uses of the legal senses. To seize, confiscate, annex. Obsolete.

transitive. To dispossess (a person) of ownership; to deprive of property. Const. from.