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On returning to London four years later, customs officers confiscated Hockney's magazines.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

That change in policy exposed “traffickers in confiscated property of United States nationals” to brings claims in federal courts, Thomas said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

"Havana Docks has shown that the cruise lines used confiscated property in which Havana Docks had a property interest and to which it owns a claim."

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

“At that point, the docks were tainted as confiscated property,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

If Lin-lin’s family had to live on just sixty yuan a month, and half of their clothes had been confiscated, she would learn to sew too.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang