seized property
Legally claimed goods
Seized property is assets taken by authorities through legal process—typically by police, courts, or tax agencies.
Property may be seized as evidence in criminal investigations, to satisfy unpaid debts or taxes, or through civil asset forfeiture when suspected of connection to illegal activity: The DEA auctioned off seized property from drug raids.
The term often appears in contexts where ownership transfer is contested or compelled.
- confiscatedSeized by authority
- forfeitedLost through violation
- civil forfeitureGovernment confiscation without criminal charges
- impoundedSeized by legal authority
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
auction · police auction · evidence · chain of custody · evidence locker · asset · lien · repossessed · raid · no-knock raid · warrant · customs · smuggled · inventory · warehouse · storage facility · lockup · auctioneer
- forced salesforeclosure sale, sheriff's sale, tax sale, forced sale, bankruptcy sale
- surplus auctionsgovernment auctions, surplus auctions, surplus goods, military surplus, army surplus