Confiscation

The act of condemning and adjudging to the public treasury. Webster. — The appropriation (usually by formal sentence of condemnation,) of private property to the use of the state; as being legally forfeited; the seizure and transfer of forfeited private property to the fiscus or public treasury.* See Confiscare. This term is sometimes used as the synonyme of forfeiture. Blount, voc.

Confiscate.

But it is rather the consequence of forfeiture, or forfeiture taken advantage of, and acted upon. It is founded upon forfeiture, and cannot exist without it, and therefore perhaps properly includes it; but a forfeiture may take place without confiscation following, as where it is waived or remitted.*

See To confiscate.