Difference between Seized and Confiscate

SEIZED vs CONFISCATE: ADJECTIVE

To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
To seize by authority: : appropriate.
To seize (private property) for the public treasury, especially as a penalty for wrongdoing.

Appropriated under legal authority as forfeited.
Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.
To take away from another by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily, as anything improperly held or obtained by another; seize as forfeited for any reason: as, to confiscate a book; the police confiscated a set of gambling implements.
To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; appropriate, by way of penalty, to public use.

Captured, Arrested, Nabbed, Detained, Confiscation, Recovered, Snatched, Seizure, Impounded, Taken over, Appropriated, Condemned, Taken, Confiscate, Confiscated

Seizure, Detain, Expropriate, Taken over, Condemned, Appropriated, Lost, Sequester, Taken, Attach, Forfeit, Forfeited, Impound, Seized, Seize

Forfeited, Captured, Arrested, Nabbed, Detained, Recovered, Snatched, Seizure, Impounded, Taken over, Appropriated, Condemned, Taken, Confiscate, Confiscated

Capture, Requisition, Seizure, Detain, Taken over, Condemned, Appropriated, Lost, Taken, Attach, Forfeit, Forfeited, Impound, Seized, Seize

Large quantities are also regularly detected and seized.
Orders for the initial detention of seized items and further orders for detention of seized items, where the application is uncontested.
Because the inventory of Company property seized in Havana is included in the general accounts of all British property seized there.
Disposition of Seized, Forfeited, Voluntary Abandoned, and Unclaimed Personal Property provides guidance on seized or forfeited personal property.
The rich people seized the right places to live, and the poor immigrants seized the cheap real estates.
Seized property awaiting forfeiture can be quickly damaged: Seized conveyances devalue from aging, lack of care, inadequate storage, and other factors while waiting forfeiture.
No longer seized for the purpose of a brief investigation, the car was now seized in order to prevent additional driving infractions.
Either the inventory of articles seized or a notation that nothing was seized during the search.
We will give you information that details the seized items and why we seized them.
SEIZED VEHICLESVehicles seized subject to forfeiture will be taken to the police facility.