Sven-Erik Alhem, a witness, said it was "quite peculiar" that authorities did not get the Wikileaks founder's version of events before seeking his arrest.
The idea of eminent domain as a power peculiar to sovereign authority but coupled with a duty to pay compensation comes from such 17th-century natural-law jurists as Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf.
By a peculiar coincidence, local authorities had chosen this week to dig up the pavement around the gates of his complex.
It has often danced its 19th-century ballet repertory with a peculiar mixture of mannered authority and unspontaneous condescension.
But Chapman's scholarly appreciation of Barrett's peculiar musical genius lends authority to this sympathetic account of the reluctant star's decline into befuddled inertia – and throws valuable light on one of the more disturbing stories in rock lore.
It is this last particular that has entangled him in a peculiar tussle with the authorities.
But how does one explain to the Greek authorities a peculiar hobby unheard of here?
After the confrontation with Mr. McIntosh, the women had angry and peculiar words for the authorities and each other, according to documents released by the prosecution on Wednesday.
