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  2. Eminent domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, eminent domain is the power of a state or the federal government to take private property for public use while requiring just compensation to be given to the original owner. It can be legislatively delegated by the state to municipalities, government subdivisions, or even to private persons or corporations, when they are ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Kelo v. City of New London - Wikipedia

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    On and after July 1, 2007, the taking of private property by eminent domain for the purpose of selling, leasing, or otherwise transferring such property to any private entity is authorized if the taking is: (a) By the Kansas department of transportation or a municipality and the property is deemed excess real property that was taken lawfully ...

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

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    City of New London, which blessed the use of eminent domain to promote economic development by transferring property from one private owner to another. But even under Kelo , the Institute for ...

  6. 'You want to be whole': Facing eminent domain, North Lakeland ...

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    Under state laws, the first step of eminent domain is negotiations between the property owner and condemning authority — the city of Lakeland — in attempts to reach an agreed upon price.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Federal Declaration of Taking Act of 1931 - Wikipedia

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    The Law of Eminent Domain; A Treatise on the Principles which Affect the Taking of Property for the Public Use. Vol. I. Albany, New York: Matthew Bender & Company. OCLC 43697002 – via Internet Archive. Nichols, Philip (1917). The Law of Eminent Domain; A Treatise on the Principles which Affect the Taking of Property for the Public Use. Vol. II.

  9. 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 ...