RIGHT OF EMINENT DOMAIN: The government's right to acquire private property for public use.
The right of eminent domain is an ancient one, and the American colonies readily utilized the concept. Numerous early colonial statutes, along with English common law, carried the philosophy of eminent domain over into U.S. jurisprudence.
The modern sovereign state asserts dominion over all property within its territorial limits, including the land, and by the right of eminent domain (see public ownership) can seize privately owned land for public use, ...
agency determines that a building is unsafe or unfit for habitation and must be torn down or rebuilt to meet building and health code requirements. 2) When a governmental agency takes private property for public use under the right of eminent domain, ...
It belongs to the legislature to decide what improvements are of sufficient importance to justify the exercise of the right of eminent domain. See 2 Hill. Ab. 568 1 U. S. Dig. 560; 1 Am. Eq. Dig. 312 3 Toull. n. 30 p. 23; Ersk. hist. B. 2) tit. 1, s.
Definition - Transitive Verb
1 : to impose a penalty on
esp
: to sentence to death
2 : to adjudge unfit for use or consumption
3 : to declare convertible to public use under the right of eminent domain
: See also take
Pronunciationk&n-'dem ...
should be vacated.This order can also be given if the property is used for illegal purposes. 2)It is the right to take privately owned land or property for public use in exchange of a fair compensation,this is called right of eminent domain. 3)To ...
 See also: Public, Eminent domain, Property, Right, Domain
  
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