The 1950 Absentee Property Law, which will remain in force, allows the state to confiscate land within Israel if its owners have spent any time at all away in the Arab countries where most Palestinian refugees wound up.
States can confiscate land, and in rural areas there's a lack of title deeds.
The Crimean parliament declared independence from Ukraine on Monday and confiscated Ukrainian state property.
The Crimean parliament, in the aftermath of the referendum, declared independence from Ukraine on Monday and confiscated Ukrainian state property.
Former President Nambar Enkhbayar was sentenced to four years in jail for corruption and the proceeds of his dealings were ordered confiscated, Chinese state media said Friday.
In 1939, as the occupation regime was being established, the Nazis confiscated Polish state property and much private property.
Tells about the history of card catalogues, beginning in 1791 with the French Revolution, when the government asked for names of books confiscated and stated that information should be written on playing cards and returned to the central government.
During July and August tens of thousands of parishioners held public prayer vigils and mass rallies to protest police brutality, demand the release of those arrested, and call for land confiscated by the state to be returned to the church.
"From experience, we've learnt that, if we protest, the settlers will resort to violence and demand that the state confiscate the land to protect them," explains a Palestinian activist who advises the Bedouin.
In Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, another state controlled by the PRI, doctors from the state attorney general's office handed out medicines, confiscated by the state police from criminals, to voters in poor neighborhoods who agreed to sign a pledge to vote for PRI candidates, according to a complaint filed by Guadalupe Sanchez, a congresswoman from Mr. Cardenas's party.
