And darn right, early days of WWII it was widely used in conjunction of other powers to confiscate and allocate a whole assortment of items and goods "for the war cause".

FYI if you win a civil suite a person can get a judgement and with a judgement comes ability to garnish wages, attach or confiscate assets etc etc, and it's is not easy to have removed not to mention impacts on credit.

I would really love to know how many Jewish investors are putting their money in Bitcoin.Tom, have you read Executive Order 6102, which Roosevelt used to confiscate gold in the USA in 1933?

If the day after you open a HELOC on your primary, there's a shiny black Porsche in your driveway, is your bank patrol going to knock on your door and say, "Excuse me, sir...you're under arrest and we're confiscating your home"?

I also just *love* the part where the government takes even more of my property rights away from my property that I own and belongs to me and.... oops, I mean the property that used to belong to me but has over time been confiscated by government, although they generously allow me to pay the mortgage, insurance, taxes, repairs etc.Welcome to the Socialist State of North North California.Rant Over.The unintended consequences will be that marginal tenants will now not be approved and will have even more of a problem finding housing.

This provision protects everyone from government confiscation of property without just payment.

Makes sense for some foreign investors who don't want to send that cash back to their country where they have high inflation or risk of confiscation, but for real local investors, that kind of rent doesn't work well for most people.If you are a recent buyer, probably makes even less sense. 

The police ended up confiscating it before he could pick it up.

@Garrett BinderYou shouldn't normally fear that the Mexican government confiscate your property.

I’d follow up with a call to the humane society after you have the report to see if they can confiscate the animals.