Conversely, unreasonable regulation, as by the imposition of confiscatory rates, although it ostensibly falls short of termination of the corporate existence, entails an invalid deprivation.
Similarly, initial compliance with a regulation which is valid when adopted occasions no forfeiture of the right to protest when that regulation subsequently loses its validity by becoming confiscatory in its operation.
Nor can past losses be used to enhance the value of the property to support a claim that rates for the future are confiscatory (Galveston Electric Co.
Nearly all the early investments of Iowa people were thus confiscated by the same class of men who now cry out loudly against confiscatory measures.
Less than the cost of service cannot be charged; else would a confiscatory rate result.
Although the Convention maintained a conservative attitude in regard to the question of real property, it was decidedly inclined towards a confiscatorypolicy in all that related to personal wealth.
I will say this: the Federal Constitution guarantees protection against any irregular, illegal, or confiscatory action under state authority.
North Carolina had passed the same confiscatory acts against alien holdings as Virginia.
Meanwhile the Jay Treaty had been ratified, thus confirming the guarantees of the Treaty of Peace to the holders of titles of lands which Virginia, in her confiscatory acts, had declared forfeited.
The grant was made under the variousconfiscatory acts of the Virginia Legislature passed during the Revolution.
And as we went about in England we were always hearing about the wisdom of a heavy confiscatory tax.
This confiscatory tax is to be collected when any piece of property changes hands, and the accruing sum is to be used for paying off the national debt, or a considerable portion of it at once.
But it was shortly thereafter applied to a rate fixed by a legislature, and where the "reasonableness" (not the confiscatory character) of the rate was a direct issue on the facts and evidence.
It is believed, however, that a more fortunate outcome is sufficiently promised in this region of rapid growth if we remove the single fatal handicap of uncertain confiscatory taxation.
With the most lenient valuation at 10 or 15-year intervals, the addition of material which makes growing forests so different from our stationary mature forests of today is bound, under our present system, to have confiscatory effect.
To also tax annually the value of proceeding years' production, like taxing a wheat crop twice a week, is exactly the confiscatory prohibition of forest growing which we should seek to avoid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confiscatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
