The word "expropriated" is correct in written English.
It is used in legal and formal contexts to describe the act of taking property from its owner for public use, often with compensation. Example: "The government expropriated the land to build a new highway." Alternatives include "seized" or "taken over."
International law may provide some assistance: there are assets expropriated in 1915 that can still be traced, and many ruined churches that can be restored and returned.
Municipalities compete with each other to attract investors, and there's a strong financial incentive: promoters pay high prices for land expropriated by local governments, who have owned it since Mao collectivised farms in the 1950s.
But the government's record of managing expropriated firms does not bode well for YPF's future.Among the first moves Néstor Kirchner, Ms Fernández's late husband, made on becoming president in 2003 was the renationalisation of Correo Argentino, the country's postal service.
In 1927, as businesses belonging to Istanbul's Christian minorities were steadily expropriated, the hotel was bought by an ethnic Arab named Muhayyes who had served the Turkish nationalist cause.
So far, only two big estates, one of them belonging to Britain's Vestey Group, have been partly expropriated; hundreds more are under scrutiny.
In the 1970s, a military government expropriated Peru's large estates.
His company pointed out that it had invested over $15 billion in South Africa since 1999.Mining is one very substantial pillar of South Africa's economy, but Mr Mbeki's government has had a sour relationship with mining firms for several years, as land rights were expropriated and as royalty payments are slowly introduced.
It expropriated the controlling stake held by Repsol of Spain in YPF, an oil company.
That would be met with fury by the foreign banks, who would in effect see their loan books expropriated.
Many had refused the compensation the state government offered when it hurriedly expropriated their land to make room for the Tata Motors plant.
The massive tax debts attributed to Yukos's main production subsidiary were magically reduced by the courts after the unit was expropriated by the state and sold to Rosneft.Shell's capitulation and the Yukos case exemplify the state's ever-increasing role in the energy industry.
