Appropriation/appropriate

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....ody's act of setting aside a sum of money for a public purpose. If the sum is earmarked for a precise or limited purpose, it is sometimes called a specific appropriation. [Cases: States 129.] 3. The sum of money so voted. 4. Torts. An invasion of privacy whereby one person takes the name or likeness of another for commercial gain. [Cases: Torts 385, 386.] 5. The transfer of a benefice, t....

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....d to be "to allot", assign, set apart, or apply anything to the use of a particular person or thing, or for a particular purpose," (3 Cyc 565). "The assembly appropriated more money than was needed", "to appropriate a spot of ground for a garden." To assign for a special purpose; to prescribe a particular use for particular moneys, or for the payment of a particular demand [S. 58(d), T.P. Act];....