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Definition of Appropriator
1. Noun. Someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission).
Specialized synonyms: Kleptomaniac, Poacher, Pre-emptor, Preemptor
Derivative terms: Appropriate
Definition of Appropriator
1. n. One who appropriates.
Definition of Appropriator
1. Noun. a person who appropriates something ¹
2. Noun. the religious organization that owns the income of a benefice ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appropriator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appropriator
Literary usage of Appropriator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation and Water Rights: And the Arid Region by Clesson Selwyne Kinney (1912)
"In any event any appropriator is limited to the quantity of water actually needed
and applied to a beneficial purpose.— As we shall discuss in a subsequent ..."
2. The Law of Waters and Water Rights: International, National, State by Henry Philip Farnham (1904)
"For if the prior appropriator needs only a certain quantity of water on certain
days, there is no reason why the full flow of the stream should be ..."
3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1896)
"The use of water under a license, or by permission of the prior appropriator, is
not hostile, and cannot support a claim of right by prescriptive or ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"The prior appropriator does not acquire an absolute right to the body of the
water so that he may allow it to run to waste; others, by subsequent ..."
5. A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States by Stewart Rapalje (1891)
"The appropriator of water of a stream in a minera! region for mining purposes
takes it subject to the rights of a prior appropriator of land for ..."
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