What is CONFISCATE? Definition of CONFISCATE in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
To appropriate property to the use of the state. To adjudge property to be for feited to the public treasury; to seize and condemn private forfeited property to public use. City of Portsmouth v. Public Utilities Commission, 108 Ohio St. 272, 140 N.E. 604, 606; Moscow Fire Ins. Co. of Moscow, Russia, v. Bank of New York & Trust Co., 294 N.Y.S. 648, 663, 161 Misc. 903.
Formerly, it appears, this term was used as synonymous with "forfeit," but at present the distinction between the two terms is well marked. Confiscation supervenes upon forfeiture. The person, by his act, forfeits his property; the state thereupon appropriates it, that is, confiscates it. Hence, to confiscate property implies that it has first been forfeited; but to forfeit property does not necessarily imply that it will be confiscated.
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