right of eminent domain
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Another aspect of due process relates to the right of eminent domain, that is, the power of the government to take private property for public use.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
He said he would buy and string together existing roads and rights of way; because the project is private, he cannot use the state’s right of eminent domain.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2012
Pickens isn't bothered that by his invoking the right of eminent domain, Mesa has inflamed landowners up and down the route.
From BusinessWeek • Jul. 14, 2011
Thus last week the Sixth Federal Circuit Court in Cincinnati condemned PWA's effort to invoke the right of eminent domain to acquire land for its $400,000,000 slum-clearance and low-cost housing program.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though yours the rents, his incomes wax By right of eminent domain; From factory tall to woodman's axe, All things on earth must pay their tax, To feed his hungry heart and brain.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
