Habitable Premises Corporation, a U.S. firm, owns property in India. The government of India seizes the property for a proper public purpose and pays the firm just compensation. This is

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The scenario described is an example of expropriation, which is the taking of property by a government for a public purpose with just compensation. Confiscation involves the taking of property without compensation, the act of state doctrine refers to the principle that the courts of one country will not question the validity of acts performed by another country within its own territory, and the doctrine of sovereign immunity refers to the principle that a sovereign state is immune from lawsuits in foreign courts.