Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Eminent Domain Clause
The Fifth Amendment provision providing that private property cannot be taken for public use without just compensation.
eminent domain
The inherent power of a governmental entity to take privately owned property, esp. land, and convert it to public use, subject to reasonable compensation for the taking. See CONDEMNATION (2); EXPROPRIATION; TAKING (2)."The term 'eminent domain' is said to have originated with Grotius, the seventeenth century legal scholar. Grotius believed that the state possessed the power to take or destroy property for the benefit of the social unit, but he believed that when the st