7 sentences with 'confiscated'

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Brief definition: confiscated

Taken away by authority, usually as a punishment or for legal reasons. Items or property are seized and kept by officials, often because they are illegal or involved in wrongdoing.

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In New Hampshire, soldiers seized Fort William and Mary and confiscated guns and cannon there. New England prepared for war.

Under the terms of the treaty, the various states were encouraged to refrain from persecuting loyalists and to return their confiscated property.

Meanwhile, Portugal's overseas empire was progressively reduced as its colonies and factories were confiscated or handed over to the Dutch and British in the 17th century.

The Working Men's Party also advocated an end to debt imprisonment, a common practice whereby a debtor who could not pay was imprisoned and his tools and property, if he had any, were confiscated.

Having already broken with the Catholic Church - and confiscated much of its property - the National Assembly now created a momentous precedent for religious tolerance. Religion was officially stripped of its political value for the first time in European history.

This period of Catholic triumph saw Emperor Ferdinand II issue an Edict of Restitution in 1629 demanding the return of all Church lands confiscated since the Reformation - this was hugely disturbing, as at that time these lands had been in the hands of different states for over 80 years!

In 81 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla was made dictator; he greatly strengthened the power of the Senate at the expense of the Plebeian Assembly, had his enemies in Rome murdered and their property confiscated, and then retired to a life of debauchery on his private property (and soon died of an illness he contracted).

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