con·fis·ca·ble

(kən-fĭs′kə-bəl)

adj.

Subject to confiscation: confiscable goods.

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confiscable

(kənˈfɪskəbəl) or

confiscatable

adj

subject or liable to confiscation or seizure

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con•fis•ca•ble

(kənˈfɪs kə bəl, ˈkɒn fə skə bəl)

adj.

liable to be confiscated.

[1720–30]

References in periodicals archive

"Scales used to measure out unlawful drug sales, for example, are confiscable whether made of the purest gold or the basest metal....

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voyage, from ship to shackles, confiscable by the government.

The Court of Vice Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the abolition of the West African slave trade

In case Confederate citizens were not so forthcoming, the act gave sequestration officials extraordinary punitive powers to track down debts and other confiscable property.

Posterity's blush: civil liberties, property rights, and property confiscation in the confederacy

[T]he notion of tribal sovereignty is not confiscable, or earth bound; sovereignty is neither fences or feathers.

Gerald Vizenor and his 'Heirs of Columbus': a postmodern quest for more discourse

are confiscable whether made of the purest gold or the basest metal."(165) The petitioner apparently argued for this type of test before the district court, which rejected it, saying "undisputed facts established a sufficient nexus between the two properties and petitioner's drug transactions" to defeat any Eighth Amendment claims.(166)

Eighth Amendment - the excessive fines clause

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