CONFISCATION - Appropriation of private property for public use without compensation.
Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862. The act of August 6, 1861 and the act of July 17, 1862. 12 St. L. 319, 590. Made in exercise of the war powers of the Government. The right to make such laws exists alike in civil and foreign war.
confiscate, confiscation The governmental taking of private property without compensation.
and to the confiscation of craft gild funds, which proceeded under Somerset and Edward VI.
Sequestration: Temporary confiscation of property by court order until the owner purges his contempt by obeying an earlier court order.
Service: Delivery of court documents by one party to the other, personally or by post.
The Union general, Benjamin Butler, declared them contraband of war and subject to confiscation, in accordance with international law, and then hired them to work for the Union army.
**deportatio - perpetual banishment, the most severe form of exile involving confinement at a fixed location, confiscation of property, and loss of citizenship.
dolus - trickery, fraud.
Additionally, government action that reduces the value of property to a person or entity as to make it nearly worthless has been held to constitute confiscation.
Seizing of private property of an individual by the government for public use withoiut paying proper compensation, seizing of goods or property that have been used for illegal purposes is a legal confiscation.
In the case of a government seizing property, it may include taking without the just compensation as guaranteed by the Constitution. There are some acts of legal confiscation, such as taking an automobile used in illegal drug traffic.
 See also: Person, Law, Property, State, Public
  
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