Following the Turkish War of Independence and the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the confiscation resumed with most Armenians having been deported or killed.
Contrary to local superstition, possession of cannabis is still illegal, but people caught with small amounts can be punished with confiscation and a warning, rather than arrest.The idea is to cut out the cumbersome bureaucracy of arrests liberating officers to deal with serious criminals, including dealers—and to help endear the police to locals.
The fines did not come with confiscation orders, and it was unclear if there was any way to force payment.
With remarkable accord, erasing factional lines that divided the so-called Radicals from more moderate Republicans, the Republican majority pushed forward with confiscation.
If your life savings were threatened with confiscation to bail out a corporation you considered profligate, I imagine you too would rush to withdraw them.
The men each received five-year prison sentences and were fined hundreds of millions of dollars, but it was unclear whether the fines, in particular, could be enforced because there were no confiscation orders issued with them.
After a three-day trial, Enkhbayar was found guilty on August 2 of fraud and abuse of power and was sentenced to four years of imprisonment, with confiscation of property.
He longs for love, friendship and security, but his parents' marriage is breaking up and their houseboat, from which his father conducts his business as hunter and fisherman, is threatened with confiscation.
Law and popular practice in the Middle Ages sanctioned the desecration of the suicidal corpse, along with confiscation of the individual's property and denial of Christian burial.
