Confisus

Confisus is a Latin term used primarily in legal and historical texts to mean "having been confiscated." As the perfect passive participle of confiscare, it functions as an adjective describing property, assets, or persons that have been seized by an authority. The related noun confiscatio denotes the act or result of confiscation, and the modern English equivalent is confiscation; English also uses confiscated to describe items.

In Roman law, objects deemed connected with crime or punishment could be declared res confiscatae and transferred to the state's treasury, the fiscus. The form confisus appears in legal phrases describing entities that have undergone seizure; it is more common in Latin texts than in everyday usage.

In contemporary practice, confisus is mainly encountered in academic writings or Latin-language legal documents. In English-language discourse, the familiar terms are confiscated and confiscation, and the underlying concept is widely addressed under civil or criminal forfeiture regimes that authorize seizure of assets.

Related topics include confiscation, forfeiture, Roman law, and Latin terminology.