To obtain money he seized church lands and property, and used the funds to pay his soldiers.

All Manichean property was to be seized and deposited in the imperial treasury.

In July Elizabeth granted the Earl property which been seized from Edward Jones, who had been executed for his role in the Babington plot.

In 1808 all Godoy's property was seized by Ferdinand VII after his fall from power and exile, and in 1813 the Inquisition confiscated both works as ' obscene ', returning them in 1836 to the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

Inscriptions recently discovered at Halicarnassus indicate that her grandson Lygdamis negotiated with a local assembly to settle disputes over seized property, which is consistent with a tyrant under pressure, and his name is not mentioned later in the tribute list of the Athenian Delian League, indicating that there might well have been a successful uprising against him sometime before 454 BC.

A revolution swept over the country: churches and monasteries were destroyed, and church property was seized by the Hussite nobility.

The Louvre is involved in controversies that surround cultural property seized under Napoleon I, as well as during World War II by the Nazis.

Butler had declared these fugitives to be " contraband " – property seized by northern forces – and put them to work without pay in the fort.

Shortly after 6 May a German privateer who had assumed the name " Baron von Hompesch " plundered the defenseless city and seized the property of the Danish Crown Monopoly.

If the Senate or a later emperor did not like the acts of an individual, they could have his property seized, his name erased and his statues reworked.

The inventory of the property seized mentions only three mattresses and bolsters, an armoire, a table and five pictures ( these were by himself, his sons, van Mander, and Maarten van Heemskerck ).

After being given a truce offer on 17 June 1850, Vahid told his followers to give up their positions, which led to Vahid and the Bábís being killed ; the Bábí section of the town was also plundered, and the property of the remaining Bábís seized.

The situation reached a head in August, when through sympathetic intermediaries, he negotiated a settlement repealing the tax hike, reinstating village officials who had resigned in protest and the return of seized property and lands.

As part of government policy, the Nazis seized houses, shops, and other property the émigrés left behind.

Schaffner objected when the Mercer County sheriff seized and attempted to sell Schaffner's property to collect taxes the county claimed Schaffner owned.

He returned to his home of fourteen years at 15 Buckingham Street to find a bailiff at the door and his home and property seized.

Violators could have their property seized by priests or overlord chiefs, or be sentenced to death for serious breaches.

He was accused of keeping Jewish property seized after Kristallnacht in November 1938 ; he was charged with spreading untrue stories about Göring – such as alleging that his daughter Edda was conceived by artificial insemination, and he was confronted with his excessive personal behaviour, including unconcealed adultery, several furious verbal attacks on other Gauleiters and striding through the streets of Nuremberg cracking a bullwhip ( this last is portrayed in the 1944 Hollywood film ' The Hitler Gang '.

A second, larger-scale protest took place in the central Massachusetts town of Uxbridge, in Worcester County, on Feb. 3, 1783, when a mob seized property that had been confiscated by a local constable and returned it to its owners.

A trial and execution would have caused a public scandal and disgraced a noble and influential family ( which at the time ruled Transylvania ), and Elizabeth's considerable property would have been seized by the crown.

Land runs were initiated after tribal property was seized and then allotted individually to tribal members.

Shulze was apparently unable to pay the suit and his property was seized and sold to pay his debt.

Both property and persons can be seized under a search warrant.

They were seized with the fear that the extreme leaders of the Republican party would not stop at any excess and would deprive them of their property.

Recent Issue of Pravda-September 2011On August 22, 1991, a decree by Russian President Boris Yeltsin shut down the Communist Party and seized all of its property, including Pravda.

in negotiating a peace agreement was signed in Tripoli in February 2007, between President Bozizé and the head of the Front démocratique du people centrafricain ( FDPC ) rebel movement ( who is also said to have close ties to Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ), the rebel group that seized several cities in northern C. A. R.

After a drop-off in such seizures for some years, several U. S. tuna boats were again detained and seized in 1980 and 1981.

However, in Madero's absence, several landowners from Zapata's state of Morelos had appealed to President de la Barra and the Congress to restore their lands which had been seized by revolutionaries.

Over the next century, the island was seized several times by the British.

Insurgents seized the Bastille prison, killing the governor and several of his guards.

A later dispute over Hezbollah preservation of its telecoms network led to clashes and Hezbollah-led opposition fighters seized control of several West Beirut neighborhoods from Future Movement militiamen loyal to Fouad Siniora.

Hezbollah-led opposition fighters seized control of several West Beirut neighborhoods from Future Movement militiamen loyal to the backed government, in street battles that left 11 dead and 30 wounded.

However the long wars against the barbarian Longobards weakened the region, which was seized by the Roman Bishop who already had several properties in those territories.

Illicit PCP seized by the DEA in several forms.

Preble commanded the frigate Essex, which he sailed around Cape Horn into the Pacific to protect American merchantmen in the East Indies ; he recaptured several ships that had been seized by French privateers.

Philip had seized several islands and cities in Caria and Thrace, while the Battle of Panium ( 198 BC ) had resulted in the transfer of Coele-Syria, including Judea, from the Ptolemies to the Seleucids.

On May 25, 1969, several young officers, led by Colonel Jaafar an Nimeiri, seized power, thus bringing the army into political control for the second time.

In December 1974, a guerrilla group affiliated with FSLN seized government hostages at a party in the house of the Minister of Agriculture in the Managua suburb Los Robles, among them several leading Nicaraguan officials and Somoza relatives.

At the beginning of Ottoman rule, several mosques sprang up in the city, and church lands were often seized and given to ex-soldiers, while many churches themselves were converted over time into mosques.

Thompson seized a hammer and struck Johnson several times on the head before throwing him overboard.

the author, or one concerned in the writing of several weekly very seditious papers intitled, ‘ The Monitor or British Freeholder, No 257, 357, 358, 360, 373, 376, 378, and 380 ,’″ and seized printed charts, pamphlets and other materials.

In a match against Surrey at Clifton, the ball lodged in Grace's shirt after he had played it and he seized the opportunity to complete several runs before the fielders forced him to stop.

The Prime Directive was not actually written into law until some years after the formation of the Federation — in the Star Trek episode " A Piece of the Action ," an early Federation ship, the Horizon, visited a primitive planet and left behind several items which altered the planet's culture significantly — most notably the book Chicago Mobs Of The Twenties, which the inhabitants quickly seized upon as a blueprint for their entire society.

Khat has been seized by local police and federal authorities on several occasions.

The town was seized for several weeks by Bulgarian hayduts in 1599.

They attempted to capture several Spanish ships on the outward-bound voyage to improve their profits, but they were captured themselves and their cargo seized.

During Emperor Jomei's reign, Soga no Emishi seized several political initiatives.

Philip seized several islands and places in Caria and Thrace, whilst the Battle of Panium ( 198 BC ) definitely transferred Coele-Syria, including Judea, from the Ptolemies to the Seleucids.

He was seized and carried to the governor, where he was forced to prove his vocation by producing several caricatures of the French ; particularly a scene of the shore, with an immense piece of beef landing for the lion d ' argent, the English inn at Calais, and several hungry friars following it.