Essay On Eminent Domain
Eminent domain is the right of a government to expropriate private property, by fiat, for what it deems is ‘public purpose’. Historically, it has often been subsumed within sovereignty and counted as its attribute. Eminent domain comes from the Latin phrase dominium eminens, taken from Hugo Grotius’s legal treatise, De Jure Belli et Pacis (on … Read more