confiscation

Examples of confiscated

confiscated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

And once, later, the second prior of the monastery confiscated his writing tablets, and completely destroyed what he had written on the wax.
Inasmuch as one reason for the border closure was currency conversion, it was not uncommon for border crossers to have their money confiscated.
Large estates permanently confiscated from great delinquents and fractions of estates taken from lesser offenders could be bought by parliament's supporters.
By contrast, the capital income can be confiscated and the government can eventually own all the capital to run production.
First, they confiscated large land holdings and introduced state farms.
In this gigantic hall, one might say, the confiscated mead-benches on which many a warrior had once found his former identity are relocated.
If the same offence is committed the second time, the cutting and felling tools are confiscated.
Generally, the higher the point probability for the price offered, the lower is the confiscated share of the grant.
Besides initiating lawsuits to regain their estates, royalists also raised loans to purchase from the state confiscated lands, thereby enabling them to maintain their livings.
The police immediately arrested the ringleaders, and the following day three rightist papers, which had published the pamphlet, were shut down and their editions confiscated.
Two days ago the psychologist was arrested and his tapes were confiscated.
According to them, the country was bankrupted by an unnecessary war, and upright citizens' lands were confiscated to form unproductive co-operatives.
The printer was not sent for, copies were not confiscated.
The lists of the goods confiscated give some indication of the extent of the trade occurring in the countryside.
At the collapse of the revolt copies were confiscated.
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