I confiscated the lot, and the good Mole is now sitting in the blue boudoir, filling up plain, simple invitation cards.
As a result, in 1097 his land was confiscated, his teachings barred, and he was banished to Fu-chou, in southwest China.
During the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, the house of Cao Family was searched and their property was confiscated, their family, once prosperous and prominent, being on the wane.
His friend said that because of recent threats he had borrowed the pistol from the repository of confiscated weapons.
Chinese cities are launching a scoring system for dog owners where anyone found failing to care for their pets could be forced to pay a fine -- or even have their dog confiscated.
She added that for years, law enforcement had often confiscated equipment from unlicensed vendors and fined them up to £35.
An Indonesian town was high on more than just life when police set fire to more than three tons of confiscated cannabis.
In a subsequent police raid, more than 125 counterfeit watches worth nearly 2 million yuan were confiscated.
Australia is selling A$16m (US$11m) in confiscated bitcoins in the first of such auctions held outside the US, as demand for the cryptocurrency surges to its highest level in almost two years.
The public school of 14,000 students issued a campus-wide ban this week, telling students in an email that any hoverboards found on campus would be confiscated.
A recent survey of more than 2,000 Britons has revealed the top five strangest items confiscated at the airport and they include handcuffs and even live animals.
On Monday, a driver from Beijing with a baby on board was filmed repeatedly crossing into oncoming traffic before a fellow motorist confiscated his rental car keys.
Last June, US video artist Trey Ratcliff was detained and had his GoPro camera-equipped drone confiscated by police after he flew it over the Forbidden City in Beijing without permission.
A police force has raked in over £270,000 in the past year by selling confiscated goods on the online action website ebay.
In extreme cases, a dog could be confiscated and given a new home.
Doctors, who performed the operation on 9 April, told the BBC that police and customs authorities had questioned the businessman and confiscated the gold.
