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To take away from a person or party without payment or compensation. This usually refer to the confiscation of illegal goods which are seized by authorities, taken away from those possessing them without compensation. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition To appropriate property to the use of the state. To adjudge property to be forfeited to the public treasury; to … [Read more...] about CONFISCATE

Fr. In old English law. A fraternity, brotherhood, or society. Cowell. … [Read more...] about CONFRAIRIE

One whose property has been seized and sold under a confiscation act, 0. p., for unpaid taxes. See Brent v. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793. … [Read more...] about CONFISCATEE

Brethren in a religious house; fellows of one and the same society. Cowell. … [Read more...] about CONFRERES

The act of confiscating; or of condemning and adjudging to the public treasury. Confiscation acts. Certain acts of congress, enacted during the progress of the civil war (1861 and 1862) in the exercise of the war powers of the government and meant to strengthen its hands and aid in suppressing the rebellion, which authorized the seizure, condemnation, and forfeiture of … [Read more...] about CONFISCATION