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Definition of Confiscated
1. confiscate [v] - See also: confiscate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confiscated
Literary usage of Confiscated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"Banished, and estate confiscated. James, a grantee of St. John, New Brunswick.
... Both banished, and estates confiscated. EDWARD, Senior, amerced twelve ..."
2. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Samuel Hazard (1853)
"Agents of confiscated real estate and other property, to make report, 634. ...
Attainted persons, their property confiscated and sold, Samuel Shoemaker, ..."
3. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"Ferdinand and Isabella manifested liberality in setting free the Christian slaves
of confiscated estates, and this was extended by the Instructions of 1484, ..."
4. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"In that case, it is immaterial whether the property be justly liable to bo thus
confiscated according to the law of nations; since that can make no ..."
5. The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation by Eli Filip Heckscher, Harald Westergaard (1922)
"... confiscated GOODS THE task that Napoleon made the central point of his policy
manifestly imposed the greatest demands on its inventor and his helpers, ..."
6. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1904)
"Pickering is but a prelude to an attempt for wresting from us the confiscated
Estates. I could wish you would take an opportunity of hearing him on the ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The penalty for the former crime was death ; for the latter pagu exj|e. anji ¡n
cither case, the property was confiscated. If the votes were equal, ..."
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