The word 'impound' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to mean to take into legal custody or to confine, especially for a violation of law. For example, "The police impounded the vehicle for suspected DUI."
"They would have no power to impound the notes, but they would inform the Inland Revenue and the police of any suspiciously large volume of banknotes which they detected.
Local police are not supposed to enforce immigration law, which is a federal matter, but they can impound the cars of drivers without licences, so they took Gonzalo's.
A senior manager at Lukoil last week threatened to impound oil tankers with "its" oil if its rights are not recognised.In France, despite the official opposition to the war, the finance ministry has set up a working party with MEDEF, the employers' federation, to explore ways of winning contracts in Iraq, a country with which France, like Russia, has a long history of commercial partnership.
Courts have been known to impound entire firms from their bewildered owners.
Asked about the route farther north, he tries to impound your correspondent's passport, cautioning that drug traffickers control the trade routes across the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast.
They could not apply for work permits but had to rely on their employers, who would often impound their passports and refuse to pay them for their work.
Mr Rich became a leading light in the new National Association for Advanced Foods, with other soyabean experimenters, and let the red-faced representatives of unadvanced foods impound his coffee whitener if they felt like it.
The morals police have returned to the streets, where they impound the cars of cruising lotharios and any young woman who shows her curves too candidly.The border provinces of Kurdistan and Baluchistan, where members of Iran's Sunni minority live, have experienced brutality of a different order.
In fact he carries a British passport, although the Austrian authorities impound it when he is in their country.
Traffic police try to impound taxis with no lights or plastic jerrycans instead of petrol tanks, but this does not stop them from causing hundreds of deaths each year, excluding those by gunshot.
Carlos Minc, the newly appointed environment minister, said the government would impound cattle grazing on illegally cleared pasture.
