Expropriation refers to confiscation of private property to establish social equality. This is a politically motivated and forceful redistribution of private property, taking wealth from the rich to feed the poor in order to establish social justice, in the Robin Hood style. Unlike eminent domain, expropriation takes place beyond the common law legal systems and refers to socially-motivated confiscations of any property rather than to taking away the real estate. No compensation to owners is giv… (More on Expropriation)