In its comparative focus on wartime Europe, the book's second part demonstrates how Nazi authorities applied and adjusted their prewar
confiscation mechanisms internationally.
Centrist legislators, with support from Abraham Lincoln, ultimately consented to
confiscation only on condition that it be carried out by courts rather than the executive branch and that rebels' property be confiscated only for their lifetimes so that their children could inherit.
While I understand his point, each of the actors discussed in the book undertook
confiscation for religious as well as what we might call secular purposes.
Adams' statement deserves some analysis in depth in today's climate of government seizure and
confiscation of private property.
Lincoln said he was forced to sign a Preliminary Proclamation on September 22nd to pacify the Radicals in his party, and because the Second
Confiscation bill required him to start
confiscation of rebel mansions by the end of the month.
Under the Police Reform Act 2002, which came into force at the beginning of the year, police have the power to seek
confiscation of vehicles.
1) Protest against the decision regarding the
confiscation.
The Crown Office are to appeal against the decision which throws the
confiscation process into turmoil.
Promises are not sufficient; only the creation of sustainable institutions that restrict the state's power to make arbitary
confiscations or to default on early commitments will do.
MEPs want member states who receive a freezing or
confiscation order to be bound to execute it within 20 days, as opposed to the 60 days proposed by the Commission, so that criminals do not have time to move their assets.
Sudanese newspapers complain of the far-reaching powers of the NISS which routinely punishes dailies through
confiscation or suspension.
