Confiscation
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Confiscation (from the Latin confiscare "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other public authority. The word is also used, popularly, of spoliation under legal forms, or of any seizure of property as punishment or in enforcement of the law.
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See also
- Spanish confiscation
- Asset forfeiture
- Civil forfeiture in the United States
- Eminent domain
- Individual reclamation
- FATF
- Money laundering
- New Zealand land confiscations
- Penalty
- Prodrazvyorstka (1918-1921) under War Communism in Soviet Russia
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