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The goods are held for a given amount of time, and if the rent is not paid, they may be sold. [citation needed] The actual seizure of the goods may be carried out by the landlord, the landlord's agent, or an officer of the government, a bailiff or sheriff officer in the United Kingdom or a sheriff or marshal in the United States.
In 2012, over $4.4 billion were seized through forfeiture [44] as compared to an estimated $4.7 billion Americans suffered as losses from criminal burglary. [45] Federal authorities seized over $4 billion in 2013 through forfeiture, with some of the money being taken from innocent victims. [30] In 2010, there were 15,000 cases of forfeitures. [15]
Millions of counterfeit goods seized last year. According to CBP, the agency seized more than 19,700 shipments of goods that violated federal Intellectual Property Rights — which equates to ...
It is unclear how effective Operation In Our Sites has been in preventing websites that harm the U.S. economy, but agencies have seized a significant amount of funds and counterfeit goods from targeted websites. In April and May 2012, both DOJ and ICE released figures indicating that they had seized more than $896,000 funds and $1,500,000 ...
Tax sale: seized assets; Court auction: items sold to satisfy a court judgment, like storage contents of not-paying tenants; Insolvent companies where the government is the liquidator (e.g. official receiver) Unowned property; Often goods sold at government auctions will be unreserved, meaning that they will be sold to the highest bidder at the ...
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
On April 17, 2014, the State of Texas seized the YFZ Ranch, a one time Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community that housed as many as 700 people when it was raided by Texas on March 29, 2008. [34] [35] Under Texas law, authorities can seize property that was used to commit or facilitate certain criminal conduct.
Raids on storage facilities in New York City turned up a huge haul of counterfeit handbags, shoes and other luxury merchandise that could have been worth more than $1 billion if the knockoffs had ...