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n. The act or process of confiscating.

n. The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.

n. The act of confiscating, or appropriating as forfeited.

n. A statute of 1862 (12 Stat., 589) authorizing the seizure of such property and its condemnation by proceedings in the United States courts. These acts constituted part of the “war measures” adopted during the civil war, and were upheld by the Supreme Court in 1870 (Miller v. U. S., 11 Wall., 268).

n. seizure by the government

"The Norwegian Foreign Ministry summoned Iran's charge d'affaires on Thursday to protest against what it called the confiscation of Ebadi's Nobel medal and diploma and express 'grave concern' about the treatment of her husband."

seizure   

confiscation act    confiscation cases   

expropriation   

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forfeiture    imprisonment    deportation    proscription    banishment    expulsion    spoliation    extortion    excommunication    pillage