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"The city used eminent domain to take over my grandfather's farm and use it as a watershed area."

"The state acquired the property for the freeway under the principle of eminent domain."

* Eminent Domain is the power of the State to take over private property for a public use with payment of compensation to owner. The Supreme Court held in Kelo vs. City of New London that re-developing an area with a shopping mall could be considered a "public use." Eminent Domain is very broadly intrepreted in favor of the State.

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