.... a reference to seized assets, (criminal) assets, etc.
Although we should perhaps say civil forfeiture of assets.......usually we only refer to civil assets.

http://www.malet.com/does_the_civil_asset_forfeiture_.htm

Civil asset forfeiture statutes allow law enforcement agencies to seize money and property without the owners being convicted, indicted, or arrested for a crime -- indeed, even if the owners are acquitted. Eighty percent of people who have property forfeited are not charged with a crime. Police are allowed to seize any assets that they claim to believe to be involved with illicit drugs. Civil asset forfeiture is based on the concept that property that is allegedly connected to a crime is itself guilty and can be seized and tried in civil court.
http://www.ndsn.org/summer99/fort1.html

My brief research shows that this term encompasses facilities, property and so on which are distinct from military assets. As I understand it, it is used to describe any property – land, buildings, roads, etc. The term is clearly part of regular NATO-speak. Civil assets may be seized (cf. Civil Assets Forfeiture Reform Act 2000 / US) by a state in certain circumstances. I would also say it refers to tangible property of course and not to intangible property (cf. www.law.com). In a corporate context, "capital assets" would be an erroneous synonym as that tems includes funds, which for me "civil assets" does not.

http://www.crimelynx.com/hyde2000.html

http://internet.ggu.edu/university_library/if/outrage.html

http://www.malet.com/does_the_civil_asset_forfeiture_.htm

http://www.nato.int/docu/handbook/2001/hb0809.htm

www.globalpolicy.org/security/ peacekpg/general/2002/nato.htm

fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/ fmsopubs/ISSUES/prototypes/prototypes.htm

www.defenselink.mil/pubs/spaceintro.pdf


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Note added at 19 hrs 7 mins (2004-07-14 07:23:12 GMT) Post-grading
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Check out these links and you will see that \"civil assets\" and \"human assets\" are also sometimes compared. \"Civil assets\" remaining as tangible facilities such as buildings, roads, drainage etc, \"human assets\" being people, manpower,...