Confiscation of Property
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confiscation · confiscation of effects · property shall be confiscated
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The seizure of a criminal's property upon banishment or conviction, examined and ultimately criticized as unjust because it punishes an offender's innocent family.
The confiscation of effects, added to banishment, is a greater punishment than banishment alone;
The law which ordains confiscations, sets a price on the head of the subject, with the guilty punishes the innocent, and by reducing them to indigence and despair, tempts them to become criminal.
Against Leptines
Seizure of property as a legal punishment in the statute attacked by the speaker.
But Leptines has used a different measure and says that if anyone claims a return from you, he shall be disfranchised, and his property shall be confiscated.