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Properties that can be confiscated include real estate property such as a house or motel, cars, cash, jewelry, boats, and almost anything [15] suspected of being related to the manufacture and sale and transportation of illegal controlled substances, such as: controlled substances [22] raw materials needed to make them [22] containers to hold ...
Though law enforcement does not have to return property "instantaneously," Katsas wrote, the Fourth Amendment requires that any "continuing retention of seized property" be reasonable.
A judge has ruled that a Georgia railroad can buy land against the will of property owners to build a track, rebuffing a challenge that a libertarian group hoped could make it harder to use ...
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. [1]
Distraint is the act or process "whereby a person (the distrainor), traditionally even without prior court approval, seizes the personal property of another located upon the distrainor's land in satisfaction of a claim, as a pledge for performance of a duty, or in reparation of an injury."
Constructive possession is an important concept in both criminal law, regarding theft and embezzlement, and civil law, regarding possession of land and chattels. For example, if someone steals your credit card number , the credit card never leaves your actual possession, but the person who has stolen the number has constructive possession and ...
Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103 (2006), is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that without a search warrant, police had no constitutional right to search a house where one resident consents to the search while another resident objects.
As of 2014, the Restatement's failure to address basic doctrines like adverse possession and real estate transfers had never been corrected over 75 years, three Restatements series, and 17 volumes. [2] In the 1970s, the Uniform Law Commission's project to standardize state real property law was a spectacular failure. [3] [4] [5]