eminent domain
noun[U]
USukusLAW,PROPERTY
→compulsory purchase
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Although the dam was never built, 72,000 acres (291 km) of land were acquired by condemnation andeminentdomain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These plans have caused controversy in the communities along and near the highway's proposed alignment, mostly related to issues ofeminentdomain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ineminentdomaincases, the standard is often not the most probable price, but the highest price obtainable in a voluntary transaction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Portions of the area were eventually declared blighted by the city, and remaining properties were purchased byeminentdomain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Orr also worked to reform laws regardingeminentdomainand for passage of the state constitutional amendment to provide greater funding to public schools.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Property owners who refused to sell to the city became the subject ofeminentdomain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The government, in assertingeminentdomain, must pay the owner the fair market value of that land.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some laws like due process, the powers of juries and grand juries, double jeopardy laws, religious freedom, andeminentdomainwere added.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.School districts have the power to tax their residents and to useeminentdomain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In that time, states and municipalities had slowly extended their use ofeminentdomain, frequently to include economic development purposes.
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