Impounding in a sentence as a noun

They sould start impounding cars. Those are weapons.

By impounding your car, they are clear to search it without your consent. This happened to me a few years ago in Maryland.

This is no more an attack on the internet than impounding a criminal's car is an attack on the motor industry.

The root problem is that the law allows for impounding of a vehicle. We like to put the Supreme Court into the position of "fixing things to make them correct", but realistically that isn't their role.

RVs covered with graffiti, are missing panels or have 800 bike frames hanging off the back tend to make you a good target for a fine, and probably impounding.

I would say that impounding of a vehicle is fine, since if someone is under arrest, you need to do something with the vehicle. What should not be fine is searching the car once it has been impounded, since the 4th amendment should apply here.

> Unless website impounding is explicitly authorized and regulated in law, then you can't accurately say it is no different than a mechanic's lien. Morally I can.

But a country impounding a ship while it is within its sovereign territory over unpaid fees would never be considered piracy anyway.

Seizure, impounding, eviction, even fines, ... these might ring truer, since they're generally harsher, require less sophistication and such effects are more immediate.

Unless website impounding is explicitly authorized and regulated in law, then you can't accurately say it is no different than a mechanic's lien.

While we're coming up with analogies, this seems more like impounding all the other cars in a public parking lot because a percentage of them had *****. If they find a body in a storage facility, they will probably deny everyone else access to the facility until they have gathered all the evidence they need.

And notably what they mean by a large dam: A dam with a height of 15 metres or greater from lowest foundation to crest or a dam between 5 metres and 15 metres impounding more than 3 million cubic metres The knowledge is already there, it's about funding and not overbuilding what you can't maintain. For the same reasons many bridges are reaching old age/end of life.

This covers extreme cases of speeding with quite harsh punishments: impounding of the vehicle, high fines or jail time for the driver - and the owner if the owner could have reasonably suspected that the driver was about to do it.

The police can consent to leave your car somewhere safe without impounding it, but for all intents and purposes they have the option of impounding it if it can't be removed lawfully on the spot. If your car is impounded and its contents inventoried, anything that can reasonably be inspected as part of an inventory is admissible as evidence.

To extend your analogy, it's like taking a sample of 300 cars, finding that 3 of them need impounding and then locking them all up, leaving the onus on the owner to go through the hassle of getting their car out if they weren't infringing.

Not by the usual method of impounding a reservoir at the top of a hill, but putting a giant array of load-balancing medium sized water tanks at the top of a hill, running a pipe to the bottom where there's the pump/generator, and a similarly sized array of tanks.

Impounding definitions

noun

placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

See also: impoundment internment poundage