What's the difference between abandum and confiscated?

Abandum


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated.

Example Sentences:

Confiscated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Confiscate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It wants courts to be able to ban them from driving, to confiscate their passport, or even impose a curfew.
  • (2) Politicians know that: they usually do not campaign on proposals to confiscate high incomes and pad low incomes.
  • (3) The present catamnestic study covers 100 petitioners, who either applied for the first time for a driving licence or for readmission to traffic after confiscation of their license by the police.
  • (4) But it is impossible to do so; police confiscated the documents of the company that handled his affairs.
  • (5) Meanwhile, an increase in labour inspectors has led to existing laws prohibiting the confiscation of passports being better enforced.
  • (6) The onset of smoking in the oldest male group in this rural area occurred in the first years after the war (first land confiscation) while in the group from 70 to 74 years of age it occurred in the years of compulsory crop-purchase system.
  • (7) The officials confiscated his laptop, phone, two memory sticks, two DVDs, a Sony games console, a smartwatch and a hard drive, the letter revealed.
  • (8) It gets up your nose.” Mahmood, 16, from Syria, said his shoes had been confiscated by police last Thursday night.
  • (9) Construction firms worth €550m belonging to building magnate Rosario Cascio and €700m worth of property and business concerns have been confiscated from Giuseppe Grigoli, whose retail and distribution group allegedly laundered Messina Denaro's cash.
  • (10) He added that the government should confiscate all other assault weapons and imprison those who insist on keeping guns.
  • (11) During a raid in 2013 on a village in Guangdong province nicknamed “China’s number one drug village”, police closed dozens of secret drug labs producing meth and ketamine and confiscated at least three tonnes of drugs worth about £142m.
  • (12) According to the source, security forces have been going around markets in recent months confiscating items suspected of being South Korean in origin, such as second hand clothes.
  • (13) In Germany a confiscated driving licence is only given back by the road traffic authorities to suspected alcoholics after a medico-psychological examination.
  • (14) Law enforcement efforts were intensified, supported by the criminalization of stimulant abuse with the enactment of the Stimulant Control Law in 1951 and subsequent amendments to it that were rigorously enforced, resulting in more arrests, indictments and relatively harsh penalties for stimulant offences, as well as an increase in the number and volume of confiscations.
  • (15) Agglomeration in the onset of smoking in two male age groups (60-64, 65-69) occurred at the time of the second land confiscation.
  • (16) In the summer of 1984, police in Pinellas County, Florida, confiscated six identically colored imported Asian skulls (in a shipping case) from a private citizen.
  • (17) "The fear is that records become a back door to registration and then, when the political moment is right, registration will turn to confiscation," said Robert Cottrol, a gun control expert at George Washington University.
  • (18) Detainees have described to their lawyers in phone calls and letters a hard regime at the base, with confiscations of many basic items, like toothbrushes.
  • (19) Instead of helping her, the authorities imposed a travel ban on her and my little brother and confiscated her passport at the request of her ex-husband, leaving her in limbo and exposing the shocking inequities of the UAE legal system.
  • (20) Criminal charges against him were dropped, but Mohamed was nevertheless suspended from school for three days and his clock was confiscated.

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