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The Adjustment of Special Seizure to the European Criminal Law
The Adjustment of Special Seizure to the European Criminal Law

Author(s): Monica Pocora
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Universitară Danubius
Keywords: safety measures; additional penalties; legal nature; confiscation by equivalent

Summary/Abstract: Responding to international requests, Romania has recently modified the internal regulation as regards special seizure, generalizing the possibility of confiscation by equivalent. Special seizure in comparative law has a special legal status, appeared controversies concerning the true legal nature of special seizure. Thus, the majority view is that seizure is a special criminal sanction, not that of a criminal sanction, more as part of additional penalties than as part of safety measures.

  • Issue Year: 6/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 89-96
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English