expropriation

expropriation, n.

1. A governmental taking or modification of an individual’s property rights, esp. by eminent domain; CONDEMNATION(2). — Also termed (in England) compulsory purchase; (in Scotland) compulsory surrender. Cf. APPROPRIATION. [Cases: Eminent Domain

2. C.J.S. Eminent Domain §§ 6–8, 13, 82–83, 87–88, 106–107.]

2. A voluntary surrender of rights or claims; the act of renouncing or divesting oneself of something previously claimed as one’s own. — expropriate, vb. — expropriator, n.

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