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Confiscation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Meanwhile limited confiscation is often in function of the crime, the rationale being that the criminal must be denied the fruits of their fault, while the crime itself is rather punished in some other, independent way, such as physical punishments or even a concurring fine. Originally, in Roman law, it was the seizure and transfer of private property to the fiscus by the emperor; hence the appropriation, under legal authority, of private property to the state. In the United States among the "war measures" during the American Civil War, acts were passed in 1861 and 1862 confiscating, respectively, property used for "insurrectionary purposes" and the property generally of those engaged in rebellion. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confiscation   (431 words)

How Police Confiscation Is Destroying America, Part 2 Confiscated country clubs have been turned into "police training facilities." Confiscated cash and expensive stereos and TVs tend to disappear quickly from police lockers. Pending federal medical-forfeiture legislation allows the government to confiscate all of the business or personal assets of doctors who "overcharge" or who prescribe "unnecessary treatments" — with the government defining after the fact what is a proper price and a necessary treatment. In June, the Court rejected the Department of Justice's contention that confiscation is not punishment and said that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure does apply to confiscation cases. www.fff.org /freedom/1193c.asp   (1699 words)

The CPS : Confiscation & Ancillary Orders – Detail The purpose of confiscation proceedings is to deprive the defendant of the financial benefit that he or she has obtained from criminal conduct. If the court is proceeding with confiscation, then the prosecutor must, when directed by the court, serve upon the court and the defendant a statement of information as soon as practicable. Section 14(11) POCA states that a confiscation order must not be quashed only on the ground that there was a defect or omission in the procedure connected with the application for or the granting of a postponement. www.cps.gov.uk /legal/section21/chapter_e.html   (4933 words)

Confiscation Act of 1862   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The Second Confiscation Act, approved by Congress 16 July 1862, contained the first definite provisions for emancipating slaves in the rebellious states. Radical Republicans, who envisioned distributing confiscated lands to former slaves succeeded in passing the bill only after agreeing to President Lincolns demand to limit seizure of Confederate estates to the lifetime of the offender. Essentially, the Confiscation Act of 1862 prepared the way for the Emancipation Proclamation and solved the immediate dilemma facing the army concerning the status of slaves within its Jurisdiction. www.civilwarhome.com /confiscationact1862.htm   (335 words)

SOS - License Plate Confiscation The plate must also be confiscated if the officer arrests the operator for Driving While License Suspended/Revoked (DWLS/R) and the offender has two prior mandatory additional suspensions/revocations imposed under MCL 257.904 within seven years of the arrest. This process is very similar to the paper driver license concept that was part of the 1992 drunk driving reform package where officers confiscate and destroy the photo license and issue a paper permit to persons who fail or refuse to take a chemical test. Ownership of the vehicle is not considered in plate confiscation due to the serious nature of the offense and the fact that the owner or any person holding a valid driver's license may still drive the vehicle with the paper plate. www.michigan.gov /sos/0,1607,7-127-1583-31038--,00.html   (473 words)

Gold Confiscation All U.S. gold coins and the vast majority of foreign gold coins were thus freed from the overhanging threat of confiscation, and a new era for American numismatics appeared to begin. Furthermore, we are not stating categorically that pre-1933 gold coins will survive confiscation. Ultimately, you will be the one to weigh the potential for a gold confiscation and whether or not pre-1933 gold coins will be part of (or the totality) of your gold holdings. www.usagold.com /cpm/hoppe.html   (4323 words)

"Confiscation" Defined It has been frequently provided by treaty that foreign subjects should be permitted to remain and continue their business, notwithstanding a rupture between the governments, so long as they conducted themselves innocently and when there was no such treaty, such a liberal permission has been announced in the very declaration of war. The strict right of confiscation exists in congress; and without a legislative act authorizing the confiscation of enemies' property it cannot be condemned. The claim of a right to confiscate debts contracted by individuals in time of peace, and which remain due to subjects of the enemy in time of war, rests very much upon the same principles as that concerning the enemy's tangible property found in the country at the commencement of the war. www.lectlaw.com /def/c094.htm   (325 words)

The Confiscation Threat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) After the confiscation announcement, only 3.9 million ounces of gold coin - approximately 21.9% of the gold coin then in circulation - were turned in. It has been argued that the gold confiscation was necessary in order to build up the total weight of the US gold reserve to increase the amount of gold that was backing the US dollar. We can hope that an asset confiscation will not occur, but given the federal government's sorry track record and the bleak prospects for the once almighty dollar, that hope is probably misguided. fgmr.com /confiscation.htm   (2040 words)

Council of Europe - ETS No. 141 - Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime A Party which has received a request for confiscation pursuant to Article 13 shall, if so requested, take the measures mentioned in paragraph 1 of this article in respect of any property which is the subject of the request or which might be such as to satisfy the request. If a request for confiscation concerns a specific item of property, the Parties may agree that the requested Party may enforce the confiscation in the form of a requirement to pay a sum of money corresponding to the value of the property. If the confiscation consists in the requirement to pay a sum of money, the competent authority of the requested Party shall convert the amount thereof into the currency of that Party at the rate of exchange ruling at the time when the decision to enforce the confiscation is taken. conventions.coe.int /treaty/en/Treaties/Html/141.htm   (5113 words)

Gold Confiscation Hydra 1.1 The Gold Confiscation Hydra, if unleashed from its hole by some crazy future American Administration, would instantly signal to the world that the US dollar is going down the tubes and the flagship reserve currency would quickly plummet by 20%, 30%, maybe even 50% in a matter of days. If the government is in a charitable mood during its new gold confiscation, it will simply send a single government employee to politely knock on the door of a suspected gold investor and ask him or her if they have any gold to donate to Uncle Sam. The gold investor, since he or she already ignored the gold confiscation order, will probably either say that no they don’t own gold therefore the government’s records are wrong, or that yes they owned gold in the past but they sold it at a loss a few years earlier. www.zealllc.com /2004/hydra11.htm   (4478 words)

£1.26m confiscation order Valentine, who had been sentenced to five-and-a-half years' imprisonment for his role, has now been ordered to pay a confiscation order in the sum of £1,216,940.63, or to serve an additional seven years. Pattni, sentenced to three years' imprisonment, has also been served with a confiscation order in the sum of £41,393, or to serve an additional 16 months. "This case illustrates that where confiscation provisions are correctly applied the courts will deprive offenders of their criminally derived assets, in this case a counterfeit medicines factory has been closed down and those responsible have not only been imprisoned, but have also lost all of their financial gain - over £1.2million". www.buysafedrugs.info /reports/confiscation.htm   (243 words)

B. The Confiscation Act of 1862 and Civil War... [Mackinac Center for Public Policy] Lincoln recognized that confiscation should only be an emergency measure and that, upon termination of the emergency, the practice of confiscation should end and seized property should revert to those from whom it was taken. Furthermore, Lincoln’s later actions indicate, at least in form, that confiscations were to be only temporary and "restoration of all rights of property," absent intervening third-party interests, was to occur at the conclusion of the war. In other words, the exercise of confiscation was a war power and not a criminal measure for the punishment of a crime. www.mackinac.org /1278   (778 words)

LAND CONFISCATION BY MYANMAR GOVERNMENT The greatest prevalence of land confiscation is being reported in Ye township. In all incidents of land confiscation, villagers are ordered by the army to attend meetings with army officers and are informed of the proposed sites, the owners of the land are then informed that their farms will be seized for the building of a heavy artillery battalion. Land confiscation will further increase hardship and deepen the problems of poverty, future economic development, and prolong conflict and civil war in the country. www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/KWN2002-11-15.htm   (755 words)

The CPS : Confiscation & Ancillary Orders – Overview A confiscation order is made after conviction to deprive the defendant of the benefit that he has obtained from crime. A confiscation order is an order made against a convicted defendant ordering him to pay the amount of his benefit from crime. The court must then make a confiscation order in the amount of the benefit, unless the defendant satisfies the court that the amount that might be realised is less. www.cps.gov.uk /legal/section21/chapter_d.html   (2203 words)

The Treasury Department and Goverment Gold Confiscation Gold ownership in the United States is a privilege, not a right, and as distasteful as that might seem, confiscation is a potential reality, like it or not, that all prudent gold owners should incorporate into their thinking. Surprisingly he informs us that under the law the confiscation option is alive and well at the Treasury Department, based on the same national emergency protocols (1917 Trading With the Enemy Act) employed when the Roosevelt administration closed the banks and confiscated gold in 1933. Confiscation is a controversial subject to which many would just as soon turn a deaf ear. www.usagold.com /analysis/confiscation.html   (3902 words)

Total Gun Confiscation of Law Abiding Citizens Begins So the Federal Government does a horrible job delivering food and water to people they told to go to the Superdome, and now, almost two weeks later, they say the city is under their control. This unfolding gun confiscation tragedy stands as a monument to the true intentions of this parasitic government. If we let them legitimize gun confiscation for security, they are going to use this all over the country. www.prisonplanet.com /articles/september2005/090905gunconfiscation.htm   (689 words)

Gold Confiscation For all U.S. citizens, it was illegal to privately hold gold from 1933 until gold ownership was again legalized in early 1975. Thankfully, certain U.S. "Collector" Rare Coins were later excluded, by law, from confiscation and continue to be excluded today. In addition, Congress specifically excluded the American Eagle gold coins from confiscation prior to their release in 1986. www.austincoins.com /confiscation.htm   (332 words)

Optimist - Confiscation, My Assets! When the subject of gold confiscation reaches a sufficient level of audience participation during the coming dollar debacle, the Optimist is confident that the government would willingly take a solemn oath to affirm that the government will not again confiscate gold. There is a clear and pressing danger that precious metals could be confiscated again by the government. However, a plan by default for government to confiscate silver from unwilling owners is an unacceptable solution to the rapidly approaching silver shortage problem. sitekreator.com /Optimist/confiscation.html   (3170 words)

Denver's Property Confiscation Ordinance, David Kopel, Independence Institute, Due Process, Preemption Denver ... Another "Civil Procedure" provision states that it is no defense to confiscation that the property owner, after receiving notice that a nuisance existed on his property, took steps to abate nuisance. In response to statements from attorneys and citizens about the egregiously unfair provisions of the ordinances, the standard response of the representative from the Denver City Attorney was to claim that he enforced the law reasonably. HB 1305 fixes the Denver confiscation laws insofar as they apply to firearms, and is therefore an overdue restoration of the lost rights of people who live in or travel through Denver. www.i2i.org /SuptDocs/Crime/denverconfiscation.htm   (1938 words)

CONFISCATION First Ottoman confiscation was made in the Sultanate of Mehmed the Conqueror, in 1451. The main aim of this practise was to invite the government officer’s to honesty by indicating they could not have left anything to their heirs after their deaths. The death or executed viziers’ money, valuable things, weapons were left to the government but the lands were given to their heirs. www.osmanli700.gen.tr /english/affairs/olayc6.html   (172 words)

Safe Haven | Confiscation I have read various commentators on this subject of confiscation and the arguments go along the lines of "not enough gold to be worth monetizing" or "too few silver investors worth chasing". Whether that is verifiable or not, holding onto illegal $20 coins for nearly 40 years before the repeal of confiscation was not the wisest course to take. It may even influence your entry strategy as the safest form of precious metals is sought out in a world of confiscation. www.safehaven.com /article-2955.htm   (1586 words)

The Gold Confiscation Hydra Debating gold confiscation with gold investors is like watching conservatives and liberals debate the merits of mercilessly murdering innocent babies in their mothers’ wombs for fun and profit, errr, I mean “abortion” in politically-correct speak. Second, confiscating gold again would be the final coup de grace slaughtering the fragile US dollar as thoroughly as if Hercules himself had shoved a burning firebrand down its throat. The Gold Confiscation Hydra, if unleashed from its hole by some crazy future American Administration, would instantly signal to the world that the US dollar is going down the tubes and the flagship reserve currency would quickly plummet by 20%, 30%, maybe even 50% in a single trading day. www.zealllc.com /2002/hydra.htm   (5440 words)

Financial Sense Forum - Gold Confiscation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The feasibility of going around the country confiscating PMs would be impractical, as the market is small. Confiscation, as in door-to-door search and seizure is not the real problem. The most blatant example of this was the 1933 confiscation of gold by the Roosevelt Administration. www.financialsense.com /cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1057952836/11   (1895 words)

How Police Confiscation Is Destroying America, Part 1 Agencies now confiscating property from innocent Americans include the FBI, the Coast Guard, the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Post Office, the Bureau of Land Management, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Department of Housing — plus thousands of state and local police departments. To confiscate your home, all police need is a tip from an anonymous informant that a family member or friend once had drugs, pornography, or unregistered guns in your house. A new offense that can trigger total confiscation of your assets is the crime of "structuring." Structuring is arranging your bank deposits or withdrawals to avoid filing an IRS Currency Transaction Report (CTR). www.fff.org /freedom/1093c.asp   (1399 words)

Confiscation - SilverSeek.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Government confiscation fears were one of the biggest concerns that investors asked me about while I was speaking recently in Toronto and Chicago. Realistically, government confiscation is impractical given the relative values. Confiscate all the silver you can at these prices, and confiscate cheap Chinese goods while you are at it. news.silverseek.com /GoldIsMoney/1145038261.php   (4105 words)

Confiscation - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Goods may also be confiscated by the state for breaches of statutes relating to customs, excise or explosives. In the United States among the "war measures" during the Civil War, acts were passed in 1861 and 1862 confiscating, respectively, property used for "insurrectionary purposes" and the property generally of those engaged in rebellion. This page was last modified 23:34, 2 Sep 2006. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Confiscation   (81 words)

Israeli Settlement  Activity and Land  Confiscation in West Bank and Gaza Strip Gush Etzion settlers confiscate 30 dunums of land, in addition to 60 dunums previously confiscated, belonging to Palestinian citizens from Beit Ummar, in Hebron District. Israeli military authorities issue order confiscating 30 dunums of land cultivated with fully-grown olive trees in Izbat Noufel hamlet in the Qalqilya District; the lands are to be used as military training fields. Settlers confiscate approximately 100 dunums of land belonging to Palestinians in Bani Na’im village, near Hebron. galton.uchicago.edu /~amit/MIDE/Update_Settlement_20Activity.html   (2482 words)

Gold Confiscation: Will it happen again?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) However, it may be important to consider the reason why confiscation or expropriation is even relevant: the fact that, if it eventually became necessary for the U.S. to bolster a collapsing dollar with gold, we no longer have enough gold to do so in any meaningful way. They should also remember that, in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt dealt with a monetary and banking crisis by confiscating all privately owned gold; paying for the gold at $20.67 per ounce; immediately devaluing the dollar by 40 percent; and setting the price of gold at $35.00 per ounce. However, he also inflicted losses of 40 percent on gold owners and stripped them of the gold that they saved to insure their financial futures. www.blanchardonline.com /gold_as_investment/confiscation_again.php   (1071 words)

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