eminent domain
Etymology
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Etymology
Translation of the Latin term dominium ēminēns “supreme ownership”.
Nouneminent domain (uncountable)
- (legal, US, Philippines) The right of a government over the private property within its jurisdiction. Usually invoked to compel land owners to sell their property in preparation for a major construction project such as a freeway.
- The city council used eminent domain to make me sell my store.
- (historical) In feudalism, the legal interest or rights of a lord or superior in an estate in land held in fee, as opposed to the vassal's or tenant's interest.
- compulsory purchase (UK), compulsory acquisition (Australia), expropriation (Canada)
- superiority (Scots law)
- (feudal law): utile domain, inferiority (Scots law)
- French: expropriation, expropriation pour cause d'utilité publique
- German: Enteignung
- Italian: espropriazione per pubblica utilità, occupazione d'urgenza
- Portuguese: desapropriação
- Spanish: expropiación
- French: domaine direct, domaine éminent
- German: Obereigentum
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