Confiscate

To adjudge forfeited; to appropriate property. See 3 U. S. 199, 1 L. Ed. 568. Confiscation cases. Cases construing the Confiscation Act of 1861. See 7 Wall. (U. S.) 454, 19 L. Ed. 196; 20 Wall. (U. S.) 92, 22 L. Ed. 320.