Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 29, 2010Today's word was submitted by Kayland H. Submit yours by going Back to School with Dictionary.com! confiscable \kuhn-FIS-kuh-buhl\, adjective: Liable to be taken by an authorized party. He knew of about a thousand bales of cotton, some of it private property, some of it confiscable, stored at various points on the banks of the Alabama. Only the treaties of England, in 1661, with Sweden, and in 1670 with Denmark, are founded on the ancient rule which regarded merely the ownership of the cargo, which declare the goods of a neutral merchant free in an enemy's vessel, and those of an enemy confiscable in a neutral bottom. Confiscable is a legal term whose source is the Latin confiscare, from com- "together" and fiscus, "public treasury," literally "money basket." | |
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