Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Subject to confiscation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.
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- adjective That can be
confiscated .
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Examples
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Mining Bureau and was therefore confiscable, but as it was of no value to the United States I asked and immediately received permission to use it in bringing corn for the city from the plantations below.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903
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Much of the confiscable property was not sold but was turned over to the
The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states Walter Lynwood Fleming 1903
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Unfortunately, some of the most spectacular frauds ever perpetrated were carried through in connection with the attempt of the United States Treasury Department to collect and sell the confiscable property in the South.
The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states Walter Lynwood Fleming 1903
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He knew of about a thousand bales of cotton, some of it private property, some of it confiscable, stored at various points on the banks of the Alabama.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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It had been urged by them, that the laws of nations had declared only the estate of an alien enemy liable to confiscation -- but that debts were mere rights -- choses in action -- and therefore not of a confiscable character.
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It had been urged by them, that the laws of nations had declared only the estate of an alien enemy liable to confiscation ” but that debts were mere rights ” choses in action ” and therefore not of a confiscable character.
Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry Wirt, William, 1772-1834 1817
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"The woman's purse was subject to be confiscable"
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