0 present participle of confiscate --
1 to take a possession away from someone when you have the right to do so, usually as a punishment and often for a limited period, after which it is returned to the owner: --
There is also the possibility of confiscating the car in cases of extreme excess levels.
The penalties for offences can rightly be severe and include confiscating vehicles.
The first deals with a new night offence while the other clarifies the law on confiscating noise-making equipment.
To define slots as national assets when government policy has constrained the infrastructure is tantamount to confiscating airlines' business and would be utterly wrong.
That is a very different thing from confiscating the property.
How does that justify you in confiscating the whole of the funds, and trying to get the whole of them for these ancillary purposes?
You are confiscating this property; you are taking it without giving any compensation in return.
That is no reason for confiscating a large part of the future development value of land which is already in the hands of the universities.
