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confiscation|kɒnfɪˈskeɪʃən|
[ad. L. confiscātiōn-em, n. of action f. confiscāre to confiscate. Cf. F. confiscation, -acion (14th c. in Littré).]
The action of confiscating; the appropriation of private property to the sovereign or public treasury; seizure under public authority, as forfeited: a. of (goods, or some particular property).
1543Act anent Defamatouris in Reg. Acts & Decreets I. 368 Under the pane of deid and confescatioun of thir gudis movable. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. xxiv. §23 Confiscation of bishops' livings. 1611Bible Ezra vii. 26. 1683 Brit. Spec. 98 Claudius..remitted the Confiscations of their Goods. 1856Olmsted Slave States 224 Before the confiscation of the Company's charter. 1863Froude Hist. Eng. VII. 5 The Confiscation of the Abbey lands.
b. without of.
1548Hall Chron. Hen. VIII, an. 34 (R.) Owner of the realme, as..by confiscation acquired &..by free will surrendered vnto him. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 428 His Possessions, Although by confiscation they are ours. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. 457 Attaint of blood and confiscation. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xxv. 726 The wealthiest families were ruined by fines and confiscations. 1848Arnould Mar. Insur. (1866) II. iii. iii. 766 Confiscation..imports an act done in some way on the part of the government and beneficial to that government, though the proceeds need not strictly speaking be brought into its treasury. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxii. 7.
c. of a person: i.e. his goods.
1754–62Hume Hist. Eng. I. iv. 111 The early confiscation of Harold's followers might seem iniquitous. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 195 In 1302, the poet was sentenced to banishment and confiscation.
2. Often used with implication of an unjust use of power; hence, colloq. Legal robbery by or with the sanction of the ruling power.
a1832Mackintosh France in 1815 Wks. 1846 III. 186 All confiscation is unjust. The French confiscation..is the most abominable example of that species of legal robbery. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. xxi. (1876) 278 It is confiscation to levy a tax on that which a man cannot save. 1869Sir R. Palmer in Daily News 23 Mar., I do not deny that there are occasions which would justify acts which might be properly called confiscations.
3. Confiscated property.
a1774Goldsm. tr. Scarron's Comic Romance II. 107 He would..even endeavour to restore him his confiscations. |