arrogation

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A0438300 (ăr′ə-gāt′)tr.v. ar·ro·gat·ed, ar·ro·gat·ing, ar·ro·gates 1. To take or claim for oneself without right; appropriate: "That's how my cousin came to don the hand-tailored suits and to arrogate to himself the glamorous responsibility for ushering to their tables big-name customers" (Philip Roth). See Synonyms at appropriate.2. To ascribe on behalf of another in an unwarranted manner: "The Platt Amendment of 1901 arrogated to the United States the right to intervene in Cuba in case of threats to its independence or American lives or property" (Walter McDougall).

[Latin arrogāre, arrogāt- : ad-, ad- + rogāre, to ask; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

ar′ro·ga′tion n.ar′ro·ga′tive adj.ar′ro·ga′tor n.

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arrogation - seizure by the government confiscationseizure - the taking possession of something by legal processexpropriation - taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)

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nounThe act of taking something for oneself:appropriation, assumption, preemption, seizure, usurpation.

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Arrogation

(Russian, samoupravstvo), under Soviet criminal law, one of the crimes against the governmental order. It consists in the arbitrary exercise of one’s actual or supposed right in violation of the legally established order, thereby causing substantial harm to citizens or to state or social organizations. Such an act may also be an honest mistake, for example, the unauthorized appropriation of disputed property.

Under the RSFSR Criminal Code (art. 200), arrogation may be punished by corrective labor for a term not exceeding 6 months, by a fine of up to 50 rubles, or by social censure; or it may entail the application of measures of social pressure. Arrogation committed by an official using his position is viewed as the exceeding of authority or official powers.

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Related to Arrogation: obliteration, Irrigation system

Arrogation

Claiming or seizing something without justification; claiming something on behalf of another. In Civil Law, the Adoption of an adult who was legally capable of acting for himself or herself.

ARROGATION, civil law. Signifies nearly the same as adoption; the onlydifference between them is this, that adoption was of a person under fullage but as arrogation required the person arrogated, sui juris, no one couldbe arrogated till he was of full age. Dig. 1, 7, 5; Inst. 1, 11, 3 1 Brown'sCiv. Law, 119.

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noun the act of taking something for oneself

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noun seizure by the government

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