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1. That the confiscation of personal property and private fortunes promotes wealth creation is a non sequitur!
2. According to statistics it obtained 1 679 confiscation or forfeiture orders totalling R1,1 billion
3. More so, I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely Proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing Laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of 13
4. received a paycheck signed by a poor person? How does federal confiscation of the
5. The confiscation of all property belonging to emigrants and
6. KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews
7. Mugabe ordered confiscation of white people’s properties and farms
8. The confiscation of property and nationalization of major business entities have reduced the Cuban population to poverty
9. That so-called ‘fair share’ translates ultimately into confiscation, but the poverty-level
10. Tobias, and his estate was in tact and safe from confiscation by the
11. ‘What I would suggest James, is that you concentrate on Hu Lyang – we know now where the drugs are entering the country – even if we no longer have the evidence………so I think that we leave Umberto Goncalves alone for the moment………especially after the big Afghan Drugs confiscation in Durban the other day - give him a chance to cool down – perhaps first try to discover who the informer is within our ranks… there must be one, as they were obviously expecting Rory…………
12. -Disarmament: The collection and confiscation of small arms
13. moaning in protest at the confiscation of the papers
14. No one was shocked when Herist ordered a citywide weapon confiscation and a weekly inspection of the city’s smithies
15. ‘More than the loss of face for me,’ he said dejectedly, ‘I’m worried about its confiscation, making you poor all over again
16. 'I must warn you that you are here in breach of the King's Peace and liable to prosecution and confiscation of property
17. Not that gold confiscation would happen again, mainly because we are off the gold standard, but it is just better not to keep it at any bank
18. Sandra, Orion, Jack and other Ultimans of the rebellion were about to confiscate Rhonda at the confiscation point, when Cleo came into the scene
19. Again: those nobles who had seen the coming storm in time, and anticipating plunder or confiscation, had made provident remittances to Tellson's, were always to be heard of there by their needy brethren
20. That he had watched the times for a time of action, and that they had shifted and struggled until the time had gone by, and the nobility were trooping from France by every highway and byway, and their property was in course of confiscation and destruction, and their very names were blotting out, was as well known to himself as it could be to any new authority in France that might impeach him for it
21. He had begun at first to talk loftily of confiscation, but the want of all proper feeling and mobility in the Senor Administrador's features ended by affecting adversely his power of masterful expression
22. And about the confiscation of property of offenders against military law, and Scarlett quaked even if their property were not appropriated by the military, it would be as good as lost if she and Frank went to jail, for who would look after their business in their absence? thing to friends? And how could Ashley have sent Tony to them? Never again would she She hated Tony for bringing such trouble upon them
23. Depressed by the helplessness of herself and her friends, of the whole confiscation was constantly with her, even in her dreams, and she dreaded worse South, it was not strange that she often remembered during these days the words which Tony Fontaine had spoken so passionately:
24. Confiscation of property, higher taxes, fines for suspected women-I’ve heard them all suggested
25. She had fought and schemed and nursed them through the dark times when Yankee confiscation loomed, when money was tight and smart men going to the wall
26. The daroga was let off with the loss of the imperial favor, the confiscation of his property and an order of perpetual banishment
27. , there is because a Bourbon in Louis Philippe; both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it must be done, France being always the one to begin
28. The Archbishop of Riazan, Meletie, called the attention of the congress to another very important measure, and to his mind, a very useful one for the success of missionary work: the confiscation of the property of the dissenters and sectarians
29. What resistance do they afford against their decrees or confiscation? Have they taken a single man out of a ship of war, or one man out of the dungeons of Paris or Arras? This is as plain a question of expediency as whether you will alter the time of holding the courts of the State of Maryland or any other question
30. Other causes have existed to cause the present distress in New York and elsewhere, to wit, the seizure, detention and confiscation of property in Denmark, Prussia, and France, of ships and cargoes to the amount of many millions, on the proceeds of which cargoes merchants calculated to meet their engagements at home, and to meet their bills drawn on London
31. Thus, because we deemed it advisable to pass a law which we supposed was a mere municipal regulation, inasmuch as it related to our own citizens, or our own territories; a law, which, according to its letter, applied equally to both belligerents, and which was not to commence its operation until the 20th of May, contained in itself a notice sufficient to prevent any injury to French subjects; for this cause, and for this alone, the Emperor adopts, as an act of reprisal, a decree which subjects to seizure and confiscation, not only American property which should reach the continent after notice of the decree, or even after its date, but property which arrived there at any time for the preceding twelve months
32. It was not without reluctance that he used reprisals towards the Americans, while he saw that Congress had ordered the confiscation of all French vessels which might arrive in the United States
33. " Now "the American vessels which shall arrive in France, will not be subject to confiscation, because the act of Congress, which had served as a motive to our reprisals, is repealed
34. These decrees have two distinct operations, the seizure of our property, and the subsequent sale of that property; and, without attempting to prove a proposition which appears self-evident, I shall take it for granted that, if it was an infringement of our rights to seize the property, it is equally an infringement of our rights to proceed to the confiscation and sale of such property
35. Nay, sir, if we allow to the French Government the plea of retaliation, the infringement of our rights will commence with the confiscation and sale of our vessels after the cause of retaliation has been removed by us, and known so to be by the Emperor
36. This appears to have been, at one time, the opinion of our Administration; for you will find, by recurring to the letter from Secretary Smith to General Armstrong, of the 5th of June, 1810, which enclosed a copy of the law of May, the determination of our Executive is thus made known: "If, however, the arrangement contemplated by the law should be acceptable to the French Government, you will understand it to be the purpose of the President not to proceed in giving it effect, in case the late seizure of the property of the citizens of the United States has been followed by an absolute confiscation, and restoration be finally refused
37. Without asking for the evidence which the President had as to the repeal or modification of these decrees, I now put it to the committee whether every member of it is not perfectly convinced that if any modification, or suspension, or repeal, has taken place, it goes no farther than to restrain future seizures, leaving the property already seized to take the course of confiscation and sale? Do we not know, that, in the months of October and November, our vessels and merchandise have been brought under the hammer in pursuance of those decrees; and have we not lately seen, in our public journals, a list of some eighteen or twenty ships advertised by the French Government for sale at Bayonne, on the 5th of December? Nay, sir, the Executive was informed, before he issued his proclamation, by the letter from the Duke of Cadore to General Armstrong, of the 12th of September, 1810, that, "as to the merchandise confiscated, it having been confiscated as a measure of reprisal, the principles of reprisal must be the law in that affair
38. Smith of the 10th of September, remarks, that this inquiry "may appear to have been useless, after the declaration, that American ships which will hereafter arrive in the ports of France shall not be subject to confiscation; but understanding from the Council of Prizes, that until some act be taken which had the effect of recalling, by name, the decree of the 23d of March, they must consider it both as existing and operative, and of course binding upon them," and he had presented the subject again
39. Indeed, on this point the Duke of Cadore is quite explicit in his letter to General Armstrong of the 7th of September, in which he tells him, that American vessels arriving in France before the first of November, although not liable to confiscation, "will be subjected to all the effects of the Berlin and Milan decrees
40. What was this ground? Why, he tells General Armstrong to let the French Government understand that the President would not proceed to give the law effect, if the restoration of the property of our citizens be finally refused; and closes his letter by directing him to let that Government know that the only ground, short of a preliminary restoration of the property, on which the contemplated arrangement could take place, would be an understanding that the confiscation was reversible, and that it would become immediately the subject of discussion, with a reasonable prospect of justice to our injured citizens
41. But, sir, after having their property plundered by France, by Denmark, and Sweden, will they not, when they learn that from a scrupulous regard to your faith plighted to France, a faith, however, which has no existence, you seize, with a few exceptions, all which return; will they not, I repeat it, endeavor to land their cargoes so as to escape the vigilance of your officers? Have you no apprehension that, when they have once learnt the art of smuggling to save their property from seizure and confiscation, they will afterwards practise it, to avoid the payment of duties? I fear that this system will have a tendency to corrupt the morals of your merchants, and from them it will extend throughout the country
42. The moment that confiscation takes place the principle of reprisal ceases and it becomes an act of war
43. The law of reprisal had nothing to do with the affair, and the confiscation of our property excludes the idea of restoration
44. His speech on the British Treaty in 1796; his attempt to pass a law for the confiscation of "British debts" and British property; his commercial resolutions, grounded apparently on an idea of making America useful as a colony to France; his conduct while Secretary of State; all form an assemblage of probabilities tending to convince me, at least, that he does not seriously desire a treaty in which the rights and pretensions of Great Britain would be fairly recognized
45. if there has been any modification, it only prevents future seizures, leaving the property already seized to take the course of confiscation and sale, 356;
