Common distress” was, in point of fact, compelling recourse to the authorities who had confiscated the property of the Church; i.
Those who confiscated these houses and lands to secular purposes, have therefore committed a double injustice, since they have robbed both God and the dead.
His object in committing this crime was to save his property for his wife and children, as it would have been confiscated had his sentence been pronounced.
By "national" lands, Marshall refers to the confiscated estates.
Virginia was within her rights when she confiscated these debts.
Over fifty-five million dollars' worth of American property had been destroyed or confiscated under the decrees of the Directory.
He has pronounced Dolabella a public enemy, he has declared his opinion that his property ought to be confiscated by public authority.
As soon as the news of this event reached Rome, the consul summoned the senate, which at once declared Dolabella a public enemy, and confiscated his estate.
Mowry was subsequently banished from Arizona by Commander Carleton and his mine confiscated for reasons which were never quite clear.
When the white man came he, too, found the fertile places, the running water and the hunting grounds, and heconfiscated them in the name of a higher civilization of which the savage knew nothing and desired to know less.
This last was confiscated before publication by the imperial government.
Cagliacci is still chief of customs at Chiasso, and he simply confiscated the trunk and everything in it, though, of course, the government wasn't after anything but the picture.
The old chap is out some hundred thousand lire on the transaction, because, of course, Cagliacci confiscated it like the other.
So overnight Peter Afanassieff blossomed out into Prince Peter Kushubue; and as a Prince whose wealth had been confiscated by the Bolsheviki, the doors of San Francisco society opened to him.
It is a characteristic fact that the whole of the first edition was confiscatedby order of his Government.
Sulla was still Dictator, and when the sales of confiscated goods, though no longer legal, were still carried on under assumed authority.
Later the vicars of Robert of Anjou for a time resided here, and the administrators appointed to assess the confiscated goods of "rebels.
The whole plan of winning back our confiscated liberties was my secret; I was the organ of the Committee, the organ that was tormented, persecuted, insulted by a derisive tyranny.
But they've become very aggressive since they discovered that the Government has confiscated all muskets, leaving only a pair or two with us.
Numbers of marissa-drinkers were apprehended, and a large quantity of confiscated tobacco was publicly burnt in the market-place.
If any such individual refuse to pay, his habits are at once reported, and he is severely punished, the confiscated tobacco being then sold by the police.
This woman used to write letters to him while Justin was still on the throne, and thus easily made away with any great man in the East whom she chose, and caused their property to be confiscated for the public use.
Arsenius was crucified by Liberius, in accordance with instructions from Theodora; his estate was confiscated by the Emperor, although he had no cause of complaint against him except his intimacy with Paul.
Lieutenant Ketchum of General Saxton's staff, who had been placed in charge of the confiscated lands, was present, to answer their questions.
The real estate of its residents was confiscated and sold for taxes.
How strangely he looked, with his confiscated house on his back, moving about like a sailor in his boat, using his claws for oars!
It was confiscatedto the King in the fourteenth century and Charles VI dated his letters from that castle.
His goods and chattels are also declared to be forfeited and confiscated to the king.
Then by decree of the Paris parliament his property was confiscated and he was brought to Paris to be imprisoned in the Conciergerie.
Leonora Galigai, the Marquis d'Ancre's widow, was brought to trial, her conviction being necessary before her property and estates could be confiscated and divided.
The seals were broken, and jewelry, dresses, and female apparel were confiscated for the benefit of the general and his followers.
All prisoners should be released, and all confiscatedproperty restored.
In 1779 legal procedures for the sale of sequestered and confiscated property were established and sales begun, although these sales never brought the income expected to the financially hard pressed state.
The latter had much of their property confiscated and their ships seized.
His special heresies are not recorded, but they led to his trial by the Seville tribunal, which confiscated his property and discharged him as insane.
Being determined to root out this nest of contrabandists, he confiscatedall the property of the inhabitants, and ordered them to quit the island.
All my father's property was confiscated and divided.
Under that pretext, by leave from Rome, he confiscated to his own use the immense fortune of the widow and children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confiscated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
