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Usurpation
Usurpation meaning
The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority. | Trespass onto another's property without permission. | A taking or use without right.
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Argentine lying about “British “usurpation” of the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands “ should be the only embarrassment.
The provision amounts to usurpation of the powers of the judicial arm constitutionally mandated to adjudicate on electoral matters.
However, the new speedy evictions relate only to “trespassing or usurpation of real estate” and not those pre-existing tenants who simply stop paying rent and refuse to leave the property.
According to him, “RIVCSO wish to respectfully disagree with ALGON and do hereby condemn this act by the Governor of Rivers State as a brazen and unbridled cum unilateral usurpation of powers by the Governor.
White-haired and shabbily cardigan-ed, inhabiting his chair like some stubborn mangy old bull, Holm extracted all the gleeful comedy in the part without losing the pathos of Max’s decline and looming usurpation.
Five days later, the law-enforcement body effectively declared illegal Tovmasian’s appointment as court chairman in March 2018, saying that it amounted to a “usurpation of power” by former state officials.
Ms Elachi is accused of contempt of court, illegal usurpation of powers, sending Mr Ngwele on compulsory leave, locking him out of his office and revoking his appointment.
Worse, is that it will amount to usurpation of the constitutional powers of the National Assembly to make laws and amended such laws,” Comrade Emmanuel said.
The gory usurpation of the civilian regime of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa's administration had taken place six months earlier in which Balewa and other top government functionaries, especially of northern Nigerian extraction, were murdered.
They also registered their protest against ''undemocratic usurpation'' of their powers by the Janmabhoomi committees comprising members nominated by the TDP as it finalised beneficiaries of welfare schemes ignoring the elected local bodies.
At Carnuntum people begged Diocletian to return to the throne, to resolve the conflicts that had arisen through Constantine's rise to power and Maxentius' usurpation.
D.S.Potter (2004), p.256 Coins struck for them in major cities of the East indicate acknowledgement of the usurpation.
Earlier in the century, many vaudevillians, cognizant of the threat represented by cinema, held out hope that the silent nature of the "flickering shadow sweethearts" would preclude their usurpation of the paramount place in the public's affection.
Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, pp. 12–19 Southern kings had never ruled the north, and his usurpation was met with outrage by the Northumbrians, who had always resisted southern control.
However, as a commoner who had imposed himself in the circles of nobility, Struensee was condemned as being guilty of lèse majesté and usurpation of the royal authority, both capital offences according to paragraphs 2 and 26 of the Kongelov.
In light of the turbulent history of those realms – a history of war and plague and usurpation - Margaret's triumph establishes her as one among the most remarkable of European monarchs.
In this arrangement, nations agree to protect one another by rising up against an aggressor nation, should it seek the usurpation of territory or the destruction of its neighbors.
Manfred's own usurpation from Conradin told upon King Louis' scruples; this time, he was persuaded to admit the offer, and Charles ratified a treaty with the Pope in July 1263.
Many of the 'legitimate' emperors listed here acceded to the position by usurpation, and many 'illegitimate' claimants had a legitimate claim to the position.
Mullin 2001, p.274 This choice was in no way accepted by the Tibetan people, however, nor by Lhazang's princely Mongol rivals in Kokonor who resented his usurpation of the Khoshut Tibetan throne as well as his meddling in Tibetan affairs.