seizure and appropriation
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appropriation — I (allotment) noun allocation, allowance, apportionment, budget, budgeting, concession, designation of use, dispensation, distribution, setting apart associated concepts: appropriation bill, appropriation for public use, appropriation of money,… … Law dictionary
seizure — sei·zure / sē zhər/ n: the act, fact, or process of seizing: as a: the seizing of property that involves meaningful interference with a person s possessory interest in it seizure of evidence found in plain view see also plain view 2 b: the… … Law dictionary
Appropriation (sociology) — Appropriation in sociology is, according to James J. Sosnoski, the assimilation of concepts into a governing framework... [the] arrogation, confiscation, [or] seizure of concepts. According to Tracy B Strong it contains the Latin root proprius ,… … Wikipedia
seizure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. confiscation, appropriation, arrest, capture; attack, fit, spell, stroke. See acquisition, disease, restraint. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Capture] Syn. seizing, taking, apprehending; see capture . 2. [A… … English dictionary for students
seizure — Synonyms and related words: Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abduction, abscess, access, accession, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, acute pain, adoption, affect epilepsy, ague, akinetic epilepsy, amok, anemia,… … Moby Thesaurus
appropriation — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, adoption, allocation, allotment, annexation, appointment, arrogation, assignment, assumption, autoplagiarism, boosting, borrowed plumes, borrowing, colonization, conquest, conversion, conveyance, copying,… … Moby Thesaurus
Anarchism and anarcho-capitalism — This article discusses similarities and differences between anarcho capitalism and other types of anarchism. Integrating Austrian economics into individualist anarchism Murray Rothbard was a student and disciple of the Austrian economist Ludwig… … Wikipedia
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distraint — dis·traint /di strānt/ n: the act or action of distraining Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. distraint I … Law dictionary
distress — dis·tress n [Anglo French destrece, literally, tightness, anguish, deprivation, from Old French, ultimately from Late Latin districtus severe, from past participle of distringere to hinder, punish see distrain] 1: seizure and detention of the… … Law dictionary
