St. Lewis originated the custom of confiscating the property of the dead man, and the corpse was soon subjected to gross and various outrages.
O'Higgins undertook to crush the opposition by ferociously persecuting his republican enemies and rapaciously confiscating the property of the royalists.
For nearly two years Carrera and his brothers remained in power, governing by military force, confiscating the property of their enemies, allowing their friends to loot the public funds, and committing many enormities.
He summarily banished the Bishop of Santiago because of his royalist leanings, and issued decrees confiscating Church property.
For inflicting penalties on, and confiscating the estates of, such persons as are therein declared guilty of treason, &c.
For confiscating the property of all such persons as are inimical to the United States, &c.
Edric allured them into his house, where he murdered them; while Ethelred participated in the infamy of the action, by confiscating their estates, and thrusting into a convent the widow of Sigefert.
Henry so far abolished the barbarous and absurd practice of confiscating ships which had been wrecked on the coast, that he ordained if one man or animal were alive in the ship that the vessel and goods should be restored to the owners.
They had always had the use of it, and therefore looked upon it as their own, or at least as common property; but the landowner, confiscating it entirely to himself, began to cut down the trees.
Where these Confiscating Acts had been most sweeping and severe, as in the case of South Carolina, and the two parties nearly equal, this internecine war against life and property was the most relentless.
Here, too, was a law for seizing and confiscating the estates of those who sought royal protection, and absented themselves from their homes or the country.
Among the earliest proceedings of the Assembly was the passage of a law banishing the most active British partisans and confiscating their property.
The above statement of the confiscating law of Georgia gives a very inadequate idea of that law.
He began the next day by hanging James Few, one of the prisoners, as an outlaw, and confiscating his estate.
It was the first of May, and the village was well filled with country people, who saw with dismay the Yankee troopers riding in and confiscating all the horses on which they could lay hands.
The Americans, at the inception and birth of their republic, violated every precept of Christianity and of a boasted civilization, even to confiscating the estates of helpless women.
The Prince Regent gives the most solemn promise that he will not on any account consent to the measure of confiscating the property of British subjects residing under his protection.
How thankful I was to the provost for confiscating my tea and coffee and sugar and crackers and ginger-cakes!
On his arrival at Tarentum, there was such a panic among the Romans that nobody would enlist, until Curius Dentatus announced his intention of confiscating the property of the first who refused to enter the rank that was open to him.
The Duke, Victor Amadeus, issued a decree, declaring the Vaudois to be guilty of high treason, and confiscating all their property.
Maria Novella, publicly read a sentence condemning the Baroni, confiscating their possessions, and ordering their castles and palaces to be destroyed, which naturally led to a bloody collision between the factions.
His officials, his baillis and viguiers, had responded to all appeals of the inquisitors and had lent the aid of the secular arm in seizing heretics, in burning them, and in confiscating their property.
Beghards and Beguines, and the imperial edict confiscating their conventicles, the confirmation of which he desired.
In 1869 the Carpet Bag government of Louisiana conceived the plan of confiscating most of the property of the butchers who slaughtered for New Orleans, within a district about as large as the State of Rhode Island.
Along with this enactment, there is another which provides for the confiscatingof the funds unlawfully gathered by the Mormon Church.
The question of confiscating property, especially slaves, and setting them free will be found in the War Records, Series 2, Vol.
Then it was we who erred and did wrong in confiscating them; or (to clear your skirts and ours) it was at least Caesar who acted irregularly, he who ordered this to be done: yet you did not censure him at all.
That was the purpose in confiscating certain articles and exposing them in the market and proclaiming them by the voice of the public crier, to have somebody buy them.
Five laws dealt with corporations, "confiscating property of water companies," etc.
The idea of deliberately confiscating Church property had before now been seriously put forward.
He reformed the monasteries by destroying or uniting small monasteries, by abolishing abuses, and by confiscating lands.
The king retaliated by seizing Church property, abusing the clergy, exiling the bishops, andconfiscating the estates of their relatives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confiscating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
