| 单词 | eminent domain |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseminent domain a. eminent domain: ultimate or supreme lordship; the superiority or lordship of the sovereign power over all the property in the state, in accordance with which it is entitled to appropriate by constitutional methods any part required for the public advantage, compensation being given to the owner. A term chiefly used in International Law, and in the Law of the United States of America. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > supreme authority sovereigntyc1374 thronea1382 chiefnessc1420 superiority1449 suzeraintyc1470 sovereignness1532 supremity1536 supremacy1547 monarchy1585 autocracy1659 paramountcy1667 sovranty1667 paramountship1735 sovereignship1817 eminent domain1850 overmastery1901 1625 H. Grotius De Iure Belli ac Pacis i. iii. §6 Dominium eminens, quod civitas habet in cives et res civium, ad usum publicum.] 1850 H. W. Longfellow Ladder St. Augustine vi If we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. 1894 Harvard Law Rev. 8 237 The name Eminent Domain comes from Grotius, and the subject is a prominent one with European writers on public law; but treatises on it do not exist outside of the United States. The topic develops here because it is a branch of our system of Constitutional Law. The first treatise was by H. E. Mills of St. Louis in 1879. (See also eminent 5.) < as lemmas |
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