(Ekonomi) Appropriation is a non-violent process by which previously unowned natural resources, particularly land, become the property of a person or group of persons. The term is widely used in economics in this sense. In certain cases, it proceeds under very specifically defined forms, such as driving stakes or other such markers into the land claimed, which form gave rise to the term “staking a claim.” "Squatter’s rights" are another form of appropriation, but are usually asserted against land to which ownership rights of another party have been recognized. In legal regimes recognizing such acquisition of property, the ownership of duly appropriated holdings enjoys such protections as the law provides for ownership of property in general
Appropriation of something that belongs to someone else is the act of taking it, usually without having the right to do so. Other charges include fraud and illegal appropriation of land
The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter
The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object
An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose. The government raised defence appropriations by 12 per cent. = allocation
The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation