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Definition of Confiscatory
1. a. Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations.
Definition of Confiscatory
1. Adjective. Using confiscation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confiscatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confiscatory
Literary usage of Confiscatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Valuation of Public Service Corporations: Legal and Economic Phases of by Robert Harvey Whitten (1912)
"Iowa Supreme Court, 1902—4.4% to 5H% not confiscatory— Water Company. 737. ...
United States Supreme Court, 1904—6% return is not confiscatory ..."
2. Due Process of Law Under the Federal Constitution by Lucius Polk McGehee (1906)
"... the exception clearly applies to those public officers only who have possession
in the performance of their public duties.9 confiscatory Legislation. ..."
3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"confiscatory LEGISLATION. A. RETROACTIVE PROHIBITION. §§538-547. S 538.
In general.—Principle of non-retroactive operation. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads: Containing a Consideration of the ...by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1922)
"... is untenable and where the regulation is properly claimed to be confiscatory
a Federal question is presented although its determination may incidentally ..."
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