To appropriate property to the use of the state. To adjudge property to be forfeited to the public treasury; to seize and condemn private forfeited property to public use. ware v. Hylton, 3 Dali. 234, 1 L. Ed. 568; State v. Sargent, 12 Mo. App. 234
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
