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confiscate
confiscate -cat·ed -cat·ing : to seize without compensation as forfeited to the public treasury compare criminal forfeiture NOTE: Illegal items such as narcotics or firearms, or profits from the sale of illegal items, may be confiscated by law enforcement officers. 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. Examples of such government action include the passage of zoning laws that prevent the use of land for its designated purpose and the setting of utility rates so low that the utility company cannot realize a reasonable return on its investment. con·fis·ca·tion [kÄ n-fə-skā-shən] n con·fis·ca·tor [kÄ n-fə-skā-tər] n con·fis·ca·to·ry [kən-fis-kə-tōr-ē] adj ...
confiscated
taken without permission or consent especially by or as if by a public authority as the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain teh customs agents confiscated the banned fruits...
Confiscation
Confiscation, the condemnation and adjudication of property to the public treasury, as of goods seized under the Customs Acts. See FORFEITURE.Means once a confiscation proceeding is initiated, the said power cannot be exercised by the Magistrate, State of West Bengal v. Sujit Kumar Rana, (2004) 4 SCC 129....
Confiscable
Capable of being confiscated liable to forfeiture...
Confiscator
One who confiscates...
Smuggling
Smuggling, the offence of importing prohibited Articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of Articles into consumption without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue.The crime of importing or exporting illegal articles or articles on which duties have not been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1394.Smuggling is restrained by the statutes relating to the Customs, and in particular by the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876.In relation to any goods, means any act or omission which will render such goods liable to confiscation under s. 111 or s. 113. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (39)]The general concept of smuggling contains two elements: one, the bringing into India of goods the import of which is prohibited; and two, the bringing, into the country's trade stream, of goods the import of which is permitted without paying the customs duties with which they are chargeable. The second e...
Confiscatory
Effecting confiscation characterized by confiscations...
Confiscate
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use forfeited...
Sequester
To separate from the owner for a time to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person to seize or take possession of as property belonging to another and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken or till the owner has performed the decree of court or clears himself of contempt in international law to confiscate...
Visus
Visit and search. A right, claimed and exercised by belligerents, to stop, visit and search neutral merchant vessels on the high seas and territorial waters, and confiscate contraband (see that title and The Pellworm, 1918, AC 292). As to the effect of convoy under neutral men-of-war, see Lawrence, Int. Law, referring to Dupuis, La Guerre Maritime et les Doctrines Anglaises, pars. 244-248....
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