Failure to pay these taxes almost invariably resulted in appropriation of property.

Madam President, we are familiar with the idea that a land grab is the unwarranted appropriation of property belonging to another.

A person's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest:

"If the government suddenly legislates the number of units, that is an extraordinary appropriation of property rights.

By s.2(2), "A person's appropriation of property may be dishonest notwithstanding that he is willing to pay for the property."

A governmental taking includes not only physical appropriations of property but also government action that significantly reduces property or impairs its use.

Their crimes were basically economic - fraud, forgery, illegal appropriation of property - but they disliked real crime."

They were furious at this wholesale appropriation of property, and refused to pay, then adopted armed rebellion when the colonial forces responded with violent reprisals.

Any gesture of rebellion can lead to abrupt visits from the tax police, intimidation, appropriation of property, and, ultimately, trumped-up criminal charges.

The House of Lords here ruled that an appropriation of property can occur even with the consent of the owner.

Nußdorf's parish church was built in 1787, financed through the appropriation of property belonging to several religious orders by Joseph II.

The case, filed by Gladys Marin, leader of Chile's Communist Party, charges him with genocide and illegal appropriation of property.

Consequently, said Lord Hutton, a person's appropriation of property belonging to another should not be regarded as dishonest if the other person actually gives the property to him.

From the weak to the strong, such an act would be a theft: from the strong to the weak, it is nothing more than an appropriation of property, without a right.

Insecurity was exacerbated by the process of the Arab struggle for independence and the conflict in Palestine and in some cases this led to physical expulsion and appropriation of property.

However, drawing on an overdrawn account or an account overdrawn beyond the agreed credit limit does not amount to the appropriation of property because the bank has no obligation to meet the drawing.

The fourth of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the Civilians Convention, article 147, forbids "extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly."

The proviso says that though every appropriation of property is a diminution of another's rights to it, it is acceptable as long as it does not make anyone worse off than they would have been without any private property.

That paragraph does not give rise to the inference that an appropriation of property is not theft when there is a 'consent'- if it can be rightly so described - which is founded upon the dishonesty of the defendant.

The case established that in the English law of theft, the acquisition of an indefeasible title to property is capable of amounting to an Appropriation of property belonging to another for the purposes of the Theft Act 1968.

At his trial, the judge rejected his submission that there was no case to answer in that the goods had been sold under a contract between the customer and the shop and that there had been no appropriation of property belonging to another.

Even so, the judges are hampered by the thought that they must not run counter to political trends, for example by implying a right to full compensation for the appropriation of property when a socialist legislature did not in terms provide for such compensation.

Section 2(1) provides, inter alia, that a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it.

On May 8, 2006, Ivica Rajić was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for "wilful killing, inhumane treatment (including sexual assault), appropriation of property" and "extensive destruction not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly", and sent to serve his sentence in Spain in 2007.

Lawrence v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (otherwise known as R v Lawrence) [1972] AC 626 is an English criminal law case establishing that the appropriation of property - under the meaning of the Theft Act 1968 - can be consented to.