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Definition of Confiscations
1. confiscation [n] - See also: confiscation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confiscations
Literary usage of Confiscations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"There also was doubtless discussion over the confiscations which the wealth of
the Conversos promised to render large. This was a matter in which there was ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1907)
"The confiscations continued till 1623, when a popular outbreak led to the closing
of the proscription list ; though payments continued to be enforced for ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"In the next place, with respect to confiscations, which by the next clause are
so limited as to become sequestrations, it would be wrong to give this power ..."
4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"But the confiscations made during William's first visit would apply only to a
small part of the country ; the West and the North were still independent ..."
5. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by James Anthony Froude (1873)
"confiscations were now complicated with difficulties unknown in earlier times.
Estates were mortgaged, charged with settlements, and otherwise encumbered in ..."
6. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"As there was no appropriation by the crown in this case, it really has no force
as a precedent to justify subsequent confiscations. ..."
7. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"It was proposed in parliament to raise - for James and the Duke of Gloucester '
out of the confiscations of such traitors as ..."
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