Definition of Confiscation

Confiscation

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

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Confiscation Quotations

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
Alan Greenspan

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
Zebulon Pike

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert J. Nock

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Confiscation Translations

confiscation in French is confiscation
confiscation in German is Konfiszierung
confiscation in Latin is ereptio
confiscation in Swedish is beslag

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