confisquer

La police confisqua le permis de conduire de Dan.
The police confiscated Dan's driving licence.
La Révolution confisqua le domaine, le divisa en quatre lots et le revendit à quatre personnes différentes.
The Revolution confiscated the property, divided it into four lots and sold them to four different people.
Le précédent de cette pratique a été crée par Constantin lui-même quand il confisqua les trésors accumulés dans les temples païens[3].
Constantine set a precedent for this practice when he confiscated the treasures amassed in the pagan temples[3].
En 1954, le gestionnaire des terrains abandonnés vint au village et confisqua les terres des réfugiés, celles-là mêmes qui avaient été échangées aux villageois par le traité de 1950.
In 1954 the state official in charge of absentee property came to the village and claimed the lands that had belonged to the refugees and were given to the village people in the agreement of 1950.
Il y a avait une lingua franca, mais pas d'union monétaire, motif pour lequel, à son retour, on lui confisqua ses livres sterling, honnêtement gagnées,.
There was a lingua franca but no monetary union, and so on his return his honestly earned pounds sterling were confiscated from him.
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