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  • CONFIRMATION
    A contract by which that which was infirm, imperfect or subject to be avoided is made firm and unavoidable. A conveyance of an estate or right in esse, whereby a voidable estate is made sure and unavoidable, or whereby a particular estate is increased. Co. Litt 295b. Jackson v. Root More...
  • CONFIRMAVI
    Lat I have confirmed. The emphatic word in the ancient deeds of confirmation. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14, § 5.
  • CONFIRMEE
    The grantee in a deed of confirmation.
  • CONFIRMOR
    The grantor in a deed of confirmation.
  • CONFISCABLE
    Capable of being confiscated or suitable for confiscation; liable to forfeiture. Camp v. Lockwood, 1 Dall. (Pa.) 393, 1 L. Ed. 19i.
  • CONFISCARE
    In civil and old English law.. To confiscate; to claim for or bring into the fisc, or treasury. Bract, fol. 150.
  • CONFISCATE
    To appropriate property to the use of the state. To adjudge property to be forfeited to the public treasury; to seize and condemn private forfeited property to public use. Ware v. Hylton, 3 Dall. 234, 1 L. Ed. 568; State v. Sargent, 12 Mo. App. 234. Formerly, it appears, this More...
  • CONFISCATEE
    One whose property has been seized and sold under a confiscation act, 0. p., for unpaid taxes. See Brent v. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793.
  • CONFISCATION
    The act of confiscating; or of condemning and adjudging to the public treasury. —Confiscation acts. Certain acts of congress, enacted during the progress of the civil war (1861 and 1862) in the exercise of the war powers of the government and meant to strengthen its hands and aid in suppressing More...
  • CONFISK
    An old form of confiscate.
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