confiscable

[ kuhn-fis-kuh-buhl, kon-fuh-skuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. liable to be confiscated.

confiscable

/ kənˈfɪskəbəl /

adjective

1. subject or liable to confiscation or seizure

Other Words From

• noncon·fisca·ble adjective
• uncon·fisca·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of confiscable¹

First recorded in 1720–30; confisc(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

The property of the rebels is confiscable by the ever observed rule of war, as consecrated by international laws.

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In the present case the rebels are the sovereigns, and their property is therefore confiscable.

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Ships violating a blockade are, of course, confiscable; but the Japanese do not, as your Correspondent seems to have been informed, make the existence of a blockade conditional upon its having been "notified to the Consuls of all States in the blockaded port."

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It must be remembered that at the date mentioned, and for some months afterwards, Russia stoutly maintained that all the articles enumerated in her list of contraband of February 28, 1904, and in the additions to that list, were "absolutely" such; i.e. were confiscable if in course of carriage to any enemy's port, irrespectively of the character of that port, or of the use to which the articles would probably be put.

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He knew of about a thousand bales of cotton, some of it private property, some of it confiscable, stored at various points on the banks of the Alabama.

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