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seize

(Apprehend), verb apprehendere, arrest, arrest with authority, capture, catch, comprehendere, detain by criminal process, imprison, incarcerate, jail, put in duress, rapere, take, take in, take into custody, take prisoner

seize

(Confiscate), verb annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, capture, cause to be forfeited, commandeer, deerive of, dispossess, disseise, distrain, expropriate, grasp, impound, impress, mulct, pillage, pirate, pounce upon, put in possession, sequester, sequestrate, take, take possession of, usurp, wrest
Associated concepts: attachment, execution on property, garnishment, seize property

seize

1 to take legal possession of someone or something.

2 to take into custody.

References in periodicals archive ?

Or perhaps the City Council might consider a measure that would seize all funds from political campaigns that violate fund-raising laws.

EDITORIAL SEIZE AWAY THE CITY WANTS TO FIGHT SOCIAL ILLS BY TAKING PRIVATE PROPERTY

The facilitation theory allows the government to seize property when it facilitates certain criminal conduct.

First, the legal threshold to seize facilitating property usually is easier to obtain.

Implementing an Asset Forfeiture Program

It guarantees only its aptitude to seize what's happening and provide an aftermath for calculating what it will have been worth--in a future perfect tense that underscores endurance.

Being by numbers

Gutsue suspects that a deal was struck: After the raid, the police would seize the $5-million ranch under federal forfeiture law, which allows the government to take property used to commit a drug crime.

Ill-gotten gains

The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection currently seizes approximately $1 million per month in counterfeit electrical merchandise, up from $4.

Eaton Supports Industry Coalition Formed to Address Counterfeit Electrical Products

It's really important for the government not to seize someone's property in the absence of a conviction for a crime.

DUI SUSPECTS' CARS MIGHT BE SEIZED

For example, an officer arrests a subject and seizes the jacket the suspect is carrying.