The action of confiscating; the appropriation of private property to the sovereign or public treasury… of (goods, or some particular property).
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| 释义 | society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > confiscation or sequestration by state (8) confiscation1543 The action of confiscating; the appropriation of private property to the sovereign or public treasury… of (goods, or some particular property). sequestration1568 Law. Seizure of the possessions of a subject by the state; esp. the act of a belligerent power in seizing debts owing from its own subjects to… confisking1583 confiscating1591 publication1611 The action or fact of making a thing public or common property; spec. = confiscation, n. 1a. Obsolete. rare. Subcategories:— communication of liability to (1) — goods confiscated or forfeited (2) |
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