revendicate
- The act of asserting legal rights over a specific piece of property, particularly to confirm ownership and retrieve possession from an individual who is unlawfully in possession of it
- The homeowner decided to revendicate her property when she discovered someone else was unlawfully living in it.
- The company tried to revendicate its digital assets that had been seized incorrectly.
- When the artwork was found in a collector's home, the museum decided to revendicate it, as it had been stolen decades earlier.
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