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Grammar : Noun

Définition of eminent domain

noun governments right to acquire private property for public use

Example sentences :

These roads were established by the power of eminent domain.
Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee

There is in the State what is known as the right of eminent domain.
Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll

The oceans are now the Kings highway and he owns them by right of eminent domain.
Extract from : « The Fall of a Nation » by Thomas Dixon

The right of eminent domain is possessed by the supreme power of the nation.
Extract from : « Monopolies and the People » by D. C. Cloud

Can it be said that the right of eminent domain attaches to the mill or its owner?
Extract from : « Monopolies and the People » by D. C. Cloud

The exercise by every State of the right of eminent domain is an illustration of this.
Extract from : « Why I am in favor of socialism » by Various

"Railroad can take it under the right of eminent domain," said the president.
Extract from : « Scattergood Baines » by Clarence Budington Kelland

The inherent power of the state to take private property for public use is called the right of eminent domain.
Extract from : « Government in the United States » by James Wilford Garner

Considerable emphasis was laid upon the right of eminent domain.
Extract from : « The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist » by Annie Heloise Abel

The law of eminent domain may be taken advantage of only by corporations which are engaged in serving the public.
Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell

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