☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Eminent Domain (Detail)

The government's constitutional power to take private property for public use — subject to the Fifth Amendment requirement of just compensation. Public use has been broadly interpreted to include economic development.

Category: Property Law · Source: Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005)
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