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eminent domain
Title: eminent domain
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 587 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
eminent domain
Eminent domain is a legal process when a public body and some private bodies such as railroads, utility companies, etc are given the power to take private property for public use. It can also be called condemnation.
The condemner is the public or sometimes private body that has the legal power of eminent domain. The condemnee is the owner of the property to be taken.
The Constitution states that private property may be taken by …showed first 75 words of 587 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 587 total…that GM could build a new plant, In Texas 117 people lost their homes to a shopping mall.
Locally, in Massachusetts, 7 towns were flooded to make Quabbin reservoir, In Spencer Massachusetts they took farm land to straighten out a roadway now known as Breezy bend, and as we speak the residents of the Hadwen Park section of Worcester are fighting to keep the government from taking their property to build an access road to the Worcester
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