forfeited

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In response to questions about seizures, the police department directed The Post to a general order signed by Lanier called “Handling and Accounting for Seized and Forfeited Property.”

From Washington Post

There was no help for it but to repair the damaged work, though it involved a heavy additional cost, one-half of which was borne by the Forfeited Estates Fund and the remainder by the inhabitants.

From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Smiles, Samuel

Steele, who was a violent writer on the Whig side, held various public offices, such as Commissioner of Stamps, and Commissioner for Forfeited Estates, and sat in Parliament.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Hence the establishment by the Trustees of the Forfeited Estate Funds of "The Academy of Fine Art."

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel

Forfeited estates were not in those days quietly resigned; Maclean, therefore, went with an armed force to seize his new possessions, and, I know not for what reason, took his wife with him. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel