property seizure
Government takes belongings
Property seizure is the legal taking of assets by government authorities, typically as evidence in criminal investigations, to satisfy unpaid debts or taxes, or as suspected proceeds of illegal activity.
Civil asset forfeiture allows police to seize property without charging the owner with a crime: The department's property seizures funded new equipment.
The practice draws criticism when owners must prove their innocence to recover belongings.
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- eminent domainForced government land acquisition
- government takeoverState seizing private enterprise
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
condemnation · due process · writ of execution · receivership · judicial review · dispossession · administrative law · auctioning · attachment · garnishment · repo man · eviction · asset forfeiture · tax levy · bankruptcy · frozen accounts · lien · lockbox
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- court orderscourt order, injunction, order, subpoena, summons
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- Japanese Internmentinternment camps, internment camp, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, internees
- legal enforcementarrest, arrest warrant, bench warrant, court order, garnishment
- police powerpolice authority, police discretion, police conduct, police accountability, police oversight
property seizuregift
Item given freely
donation · bequest · mutual exchange · mutual agreement · private sale