In a constitutional provision that no person shall be “deprived of his prop-erty” without due process of law, this word is equivalent to the term “take,” and de-notes a taking altogether, a seizure, a direct appropriation, dispossession of the owner. Sharpless v. Philadelphia, 21 Pa. 167, 59 Am. Dec. 759; wynehamer v. People, 13 N. Y. 467; Munn v. People, 69 111. 88; Grant ▼. Courter, 24 Barb. (N. Y.) 238
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
