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  2. Eminent domain - Wikipedia

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    The most common uses of property taken by eminent domain have been for roads, government buildings and public utilities. Many railroads were given the right of eminent domain to obtain land or easements in order to build and connect rail networks. In the mid-20th century, a new application of eminent domain was pioneered, in which the ...

  3. Eminent domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The term "eminent domain" was taken from the legal treatise De Jure Belli et Pacis, written by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius in 1625, [4] which used the term dominium eminens (Latin for supreme lordship) and described the power as follows: ... The property of subjects is under the eminent domain of the state, so that the state or he who acts ...

  4. Kelo v. City of New London - Wikipedia

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    Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

  5. The Government Took a Developer's Land and Gave It to a ... - AOL

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    The case gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to revisit a widely reviled decision that invited such eminent domain abuses. The Government Took a Developer's Land and Gave It to a Competitor. In ...

  6. Supreme Court Can Protect Property Owners From Eminent Domain ...

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    Dissenting in Kelo, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that "all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner, so long as it might be upgraded—i.e ...

  7. New Bedford wins multimillion-dollar deal with MBTA over land ...

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    New Bedford has settled a complaint against the MBTA for land the agency took by eminent domain for the new ... It noted the city spent $9.9 million to remediate an area that included the land taken.

  8. Federal Declaration of Taking Act of 1931 - Wikipedia

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    Federal Declaration of Taking Act of 1931; Long title: An Act to expedite the construction of public buildings and works outside of the District of Columbia by enabling possession and title of sites to be taken in advance of final judgment in proceedings for the acquisition thereof under the power of eminent domain.

  9. Turnpike's land seizure, other eminent domain acts could mean ...

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    For those who don’t know, eminent domain is a method where an entity empowered by the state or U.S. government can take your property by claiming it is for “public use.” Its origins come ...