1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EMINENT DOMAIN (Lat. eminens, rising high above surrounding objects: and dominium, domain), a term applied in law to the sovereign right of a state to appropriate private property to public uses, whether the owner consents or not. It is repeatedly employed by Grotius (e.g. De jure belli, bk. iii. c. 20, ». 7), Bynkershock (Quaest. jur. pub. bk. 2, c. 15), and Puffendorf (De jure naturae el gentium, bk. i. c. I, s. 19), — the two latter, however, preferring the word imperium to dominium; and by other Dutch jurists. …
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