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The election of a King142 would have carried with it the confiscation of his private estate.

A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown.

The Bosnia action, an assault on the Banja Luka police HQ and several other police facilities, all thought to be centers of support for war criminal suspect Radovan Karadzic against Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, met with no resistance and resulted in the confiscation of truckloads of weapons from Karadzic supporters.

Democrats explained the loss by asserting that 1) the NRA distorted the stricter measure, claiming it would lead to confiscation and a national gun registry, and 2) House Republicans are aware of their constituents' support for gun control but are unwilling to defy the NRA on the cusp of an election year.

The "dire consequences" spoken of earlier amount to the following: a brusquely worded note, a rude stare from a stranger, and the apparent confiscation of Harford's carnival mask, which results in a $25 replacement fee.

Hedges says that KLA shakedowns of merchants are the order of the day, and he describes the confiscation of one furniture merchant's car and the theft of $50,000 worth of his inventory.

It was French police who rounded up the deportees for the concentration camps, many of them denounced by French civilians seeking to profit from the confiscation of property.

They are subject to customs restrictions, so get a certificate from your dealer and, if you are at all in doubt, also from the Department of Antiquities to avoid confiscation of your purchase upon departure.

Indeed,-before consenting to the confiscation of his fields, before bidding farewell to the paternal roof,-the peasant, whose story we have just told, makes a desperate effort, he leases new land, he will sow one-third more, and, taking half of this new product for himself, he will harvest an additional sixth, and thereby pay his rent.

Thereby large fortunes will vanish without confiscation or violence, individual possession will establish itself, without communism, under the inspection of the republic, and equality of conditions will no longer depend simply on the will of citizens.

The boys did not always stop with the confiscation of this small game.

The confiscation formed the subject of a complaint made by Chicago beef packers to the State Department on October 6, 1915.

The Chicago beef firms besought the Government to register an immediate protest against the decision of the prize court and demand from the British Government adequate damages for losses arising from the seizure, detention and confiscation of the shipments of meat products.

" A portion of the Western press had denounced the confiscation as a "British outrage" and as "robbery by prize court"; but the more moderate Eastern view was that, while American business men had an undoubted right to feed the German armies, if they could, they were in the position of gamblers who had lost if the British navy succeeded in intercepting the shipments.

It held that in war time the trade of such a person or firm domiciled in a neutral country had a neutral status, and consequently was not subject to interference; hence goods in transit of such a trader were not subject to confiscation by a belligerent unless contraband and consigned to an enemy country.

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