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  2. Civil forfeiture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    After the American Revolution, the early Congress wrote forfeiture laws based on British maritime law to help federal tax collectors collect customs duties, which financed most of the expenses of the federal government in the early days of the Republic. [7] Seizures allowed government to confiscate property from citizens who failed to pay taxes ...

  3. Asset forfeiture - Wikipedia

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    Asset forfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities. In the United States, it is a type of criminal-justice financial obligation . It typically applies to the alleged proceeds or instruments of crime.

  4. Confiscation - Wikipedia

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    Confiscation (from the Latin confiscatio "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other public authority. The word is also used, popularly, of spoliation under legal forms, or of any seizure of property as punishment or in enforcement of the law.

  5. Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest ...

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    The plaintiffs each had their property seized by D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Five of the plaintiffs were arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest in the Adams Morgan ...

  6. Plain view doctrine - Wikipedia

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    The police may not move objects in order to obtain a better view, and the officer may not be in a location unlawfully. These limitations were detailed in the case of Arizona v. Hicks, 480 U.S. 321 (1987). The plain view doctrine only eliminates the warrant requirement, not the probable cause requirement.

  7. Florida is holding nearly $3 billion of your property. Here’s ...

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    Check the Florida Division of Unclaimed Property website at FLTreasureHunt.gov to see if anything might be yours or a family member’s. There is no charge to search or file a claim on the site.

  8. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    Unclaimed property laws in the United States provide for two reporting periods each year whereby unclaimed bank accounts, stocks, insurance proceeds, utility deposits, un-cashed checks and other forms of "personal property" are reported first to the individual state's Unclaimed Property Office, then published in a local newspaper and then ...

  9. Town Uses Eminent Domain To Stop Private Affordable Housing ...

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    The seizure would have the very much intended side effect of stopping the exiting owner from going forward with its current plan of turning the land into a 252-unit housing development.