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So when i read that a suspect was seized by police; They might have just recovered a picture of the person..? But then the real person can't change addresses

• rjmunro 4y ago
  I think that when you read that a suspect was "seized" by police, the person writing it doesn't know what "seized" legally means, and they should have said "arrested" or "taken into custody" or something.
  • cortic 4y ago
    I think at best you could argue the people who wrote the law didn't actually know what seized means, which is more worrying. But i would say that taking public keys doesn't fulfill the "removes property from an individual's possession" in the law.cornell.edu link. There is no way to 'remove property from an individual's possession" while "leaving property in an individual's possession" at the same time. And if you are have done the second one of those things then you have failed to do the first.
    • JumpCrisscross 4y ago
      > the people who wrote the law didn't actually know what seized means Rooms full of lawyers getting a legal definition wrong for centuries across multiple jurisdictions is more likely than you misunderstanding a technical term? > no way to 'remove property from an individual's possession" while "leaving property in an individual's possession" at the same time Yes, there is. Possession involves control or ownership [1]. One can own something without controlling it and vice versa. [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/possession https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/possession
• blep_ 4y ago
  Silly dystopia ideas: police seize an NFT of the suspect.