'restitute' is a correct and usable word in written English.
The word means to return something to its former or rightful owner or position, usually in the context of justice or compensation. It is often used in legal or formal settings. Example: The court ordered the company to restitute the land they had illegally acquired from the small farmers, and to pay them compensation for their losses.
What the Gurlitt case has exposed is that Germany does not yet have a comprehensive answer to the problem of looted art.In 1998 Germany and 43 other countries signed the Washington Principles pledging to search their public collections for looted art in order to restitute it.
In 1998, a conference was held in Washington where all the major western countries signed a protocol to investigate all objects in public hands whose provenance post-1933 was either dubious or absent, and to restitute to descendants where possible.
A number of West European countries, led by Germany, implemented far-reaching measures to restitute Nazi-looted properties after World War II -- including setting up commissions to deal with heirless property and communal property illegally seized during the Holocaust.
However, violations of the duties of charity do not impose a posterior duty to restitute, so long as justice has not been infringed (DDB 4.8).
This was the man who began deregulating the economy, introduced VAT, a flat tax and restituted property taken by the communists.In many respects, Mr Gruevski was, for his party, the right man in the right place at the right time.
Many lack the experience or money to make things work: most transferred or restituted farms fail.South Africa's white-owned farms were built up over many decades, with massive government support.
The sale also offers the Schiele gouache "Town on the Blue River," recently restituted to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese cabaret artist who died in Dachau.
In a written statement released Monday, museum officials stated: "Working in cooperation with representatives of the Goudstikker heirs, the Getty's research revealed that the painting was in Goudstikker's inventory at the time of the invasion in 1940, and that it was never restituted after World War II.
It passed through the hands of two Swiss owners before being bought in 1973 by the Landesmuseum Wurttemberg in Stuttgart and was restituted to A.S. Drey's heirs last year.
Seized by the Nazis on the eve of World War II and dispatched to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, it was restituted to Bondy's widow, Elizabeth, in 1948.
In 1948, the portrait was restituted to Rosenberg who sold it shortly after.
