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expropriate
(redirected from expropriatory)

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expropriate
something (from someone or something) (for someone or something) to seize something from someone or something for someone or something. The government expropriated the land from the peasants for an airfield. They expropriated land for a highway. They expropriated land from the farmers.
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141) The tribunal held that the environmental purpose for the taking of property did not "alter the legal character of the taking for which adequate compensation must be paid" and that environmental measures, "no matter how laudable and beneficial to society as a whole," were similar to other expropriatory measures, and therefore compensable.
Recapturing public power: is investment arbitration's engagement of ... by Choudhury, Barnali / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
77) An important part of the decision was the Panel's holding that a regulatory measure, taken by a government, could have an expropriatory effect.
NAFTA Chapter XI and Canada's environmental sovereignty: investment ... by Cumming, Joseph; Froehlich, Robert / University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review
Expropriatory Intent: Defining the Proper Boundaries of Substantive Due Process and the Takings Clause, 80 N.
Winding toward the heart of the takings muddle: Kelo, Lingle, and ... by Baron, Jane B. / Fordham Urban Law Journal
 
 
 
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