confiscate
ਜ਼ਬਤ
definition
verb
the guards confiscated his camera
take or seize (someone's property) with authority.
example
If you violate the country's camera use rules, they may 'confiscate' your equipment and we have absolutely no recourse.
As part of the deal, the city would even 'confiscate' land from private owners so that the Rangers owners could engage in real estate speculation.
Police would be called if a need to 'confiscate' equipment arose.
This is considered such a serious crime that, if caught, the law has the authority to 'confiscate' the vehicle.
There was of course a danger that the serfowners might 'confiscate' land from the peasants, forcing all their holdings down to the minimum.
Where appropriate they also 'confiscate' alcohol from under age drinkers.
The order, once implemented, would give officers powers to stop someone drinking in a public place and to 'confiscate' any alcohol.
Protesters called upon the government to 'confiscate' its property.
There will be new powers to fine noisy neighbours £100 and 'confiscate' stereo equipment.
He says only that he does not intend to expand the building lines or 'confiscate' new land for settlements.
This law is seldom enforced, but the next morning the authorities agreed to 'confiscate' our little chimpanzee.
They will have no powers of arrest, but will be able to issue fixed penalties and 'confiscate' alcohol.
Thus, we don't jail people without trial or 'confiscate' their property without a hearing.
They could destroy or 'confiscate' property, without compensation.
Did he have the right to 'confiscate' Electoral land?
The process is already under way and should result, later this year, in new legislation both strengthening conviction-based 'confiscations' and introducing civil forfeiture.
Many lands were 'confiscated' and many Royalists were rewarded for their loyalty to the crown.
This includes 'confiscation' of computers if police believe that a record of a firearm is contained therein.
Lands 'confiscated' from the Church and the émigrés and then sold on would not be returned to their original owners.
For most others, taxes were often 'confiscatory' and arbitrary, so that broad-based capital accumulation has been near-impossible.
All unused land would be 'confiscated' by the State, and the banks should be immediately nationalised.
Anyone found guilty in court of operating a pirate radio station could find all their equipment and records being 'confiscated' .
Proving once again that a primary function of government is the obsessive pursuit of finding new ways to bleed the public by 'confiscatory' taxation, the State of Oregon will implement a program to tax the odometers on vehicles.
The new 'confiscatory' approach to cannabis has spread to other London boroughs, in particular, neighbouring Southwark.
Pius IX never forgave Piedmont, ‘the subalpine usurper’ and 'confiscator' of his Temporal Power.
Three million acres of Maori land were 'confiscated' , some restored, but the sale and loss of Maori territory continued.
All I know is that a gun was 'confiscated' and that the appropriate steps have been taken.
Now, the perpetrator governments have agreed to this legal conclusion, although they maintain the implausible assertion that gun 'confiscations' were not the result of official policy.
No-one caught smoking pot on south London streets will be treated to anything more than a caution and the 'confiscation' of their stash.
I don't believe that making money is evil, that rich people are necessarily greedy, or that 'confiscatory' taxation helps the poor.
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