Of the executive power. To subject (land, etc.) to forfeiture; to confiscate. Obsolete exc. Historical.

transitive. To escheat, confiscate. Obsolete.

transitive. To confiscate.

To confiscate, appropriate, to take forcible possession of.

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

transitive. To make public property; to confiscate (goods). Obsolete.

transitive. To confiscate. = sequester, v. 2.

transitive. To bring in (literal and figurative); to introduce; to adduce; to induce, cause to come; in Scots Law, to bring in by legal authority…