Expropriation

Compulsorily depriving a person of a right of property belonging to him in return for a compensation. The term has been introduced from its use in foreign countries to denote a compulsory purchase of land, etc., for the purposes of a railway, canal, or the like. "Expropriation pour cause d'utilite publique."

Id.; 1 App. Cas. 384.

EXPULSION (Lat. expellere, to drive out). The act of depriving a member of a body politic or corporate, or of a society, of his right of membership therein, by the vote of such body or society, for some violation of his duties as such, or for some offense which renders him unworthy of longer remaining a member of the same. It is sometimes loosely used in the sense of "eject." The term is ordinarily applied only to voluntary associations and public bodies, "disfranchisement" (q. v.) being the appro-