There was confiscation of property".
One of the punishments meted out to disloyal allies after the Second Punic War was confiscation of all or part of their territories.
In India, smugglers risk a jail term of up to seven years, although such a penalty is rare and the main deterrent is confiscation of the gold.
"It's confiscation of private property and the threat of jail, and that's not the American way," said Philip Alpers, a gun violence researcher at the University of Sydney.
That's confiscation, not taxation -- and their rationale seems to be that these depositors had a really, really good interest rate.
Another origin was confiscation for welfare reasons, with over 11,000 dogs and cats admitted in this way.
But topping both oil sales and taxes are "confiscations".
As of December 2014, there were 1,244 live confiscation orders under the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service, amounting to nearly £500 million, of which 31.5% was deemed "collectable".
According to the United States Customs and Border Protection, there were 2,670 confiscations of MDMA in 2012, up from 186 in 2008.
That's massive confiscation of private property.
