impounding
im pown ding
- n placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
- v take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- v place or shut up in a pound
- To rein in the bacchanalia, local police have begun raiding unlicensed wedding parties and impounding gifts as evidence.
- As such, he is the man the Senate is counting on to lead its struggle against what is increasingly seen as presidential encroachment on congressional powers, including impounding .
- Then prosecutors raided the premises impounding two truckloads of evidence.