Appropriation

Appropriation ( Latin appropriatio , from appropriare , "to acquire, to appropriate, to make one's own") describes the appropriation of things, i.e. the acquisition of property, as well as appropriation in the philosophical-humanistic sense .

Specifically referred to as appropriation

• in sociology a social process of appropriation as a source of property, see appropriation (sociology)
• in feudal law the acquisition of a fief by the original tenant (lat. appropriatio feudi )
• in the theology of Thomas Aquinas the assignment of one of the essential attributes of the Trinity (power, wisdom, goodness) to one of its three persons
• in the fine arts, consciously copying or imitating another artist, see Appropriation Art

Deviating from this, the "appropriation of abandoned property" is called occupation .

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.