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Expropriation

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Expropriation, the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; also, dispossessing an owner of his property, wholly or partially. See Housing Acts.

A government taking or modification of an individual's property rights, esp. by eminent domain, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 602.

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