Definition of Confiscation

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Definition of Confiscation
	Confiscation The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. Related Definitions: Act, As, Be, Condemning, Forfeited, It, Of, Or, Process, Property, Public, Taken, Taking, The, To, Use

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

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

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

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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