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  • 1Eminent domain — (United States), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia), or expropriation (South Africa and Canada) is an action of the state to seize a citizen s private property, expropriate… …

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  • 2Eminent Technology — is a company established in 1983 by Bruce Thigpen to create innovative products for the audio field. Their first product was an air bearing straight line tracking tonearm for phonograph playback, this was the first implementation of a captured… …

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  • 3eminent domain — Law. the power of the state to take private property for public use with payment of compensation to the owner. [1730 40] * * * Government power to take private property for public use without the owner s consent. Constitutional provisions in most …

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  • 4eminent — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French or Latin; Anglo French, from Latin eminent , eminens, present participle of eminēre to stand out, from e + minēre; akin to Latin mont , mons mountain more at mount Date: 15th century 1.… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 5more necessary public use — A comparative presented in certain eminent domain cases. Where land which has already been appropriated to a public use is sought to be condemned for a more necessary public use, there are cases holding that the new use must be an absolute public …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 6Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men — The Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men were five volumes of Dionysius Lardner’s 133 volume Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829 ndash;46). Aimed at the self educating middle class, this encyclopedia was written during the nineteenth… …

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  • 7pre-eminent — ADJ GRADED If someone or something is pre eminent in a group, they are more important, powerful, or capable than other people or things in the group. [FORMAL] ...his fifty years as the pre eminent political figure in the country... For a decade X …

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  • 8Thomas More — For other uses, see Thomas More (disambiguation). The Right Honourable Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor In offic …

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  • 9Hannah More — Grabado de Hannah More por H.W. Pickersgill en la National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century. Hannah More (2 de febrero de 1745 – 7 de septiembre de 1833) fue una escritora y filántropa inglesa… …

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  • 10pre-eminent — pre em|i|nent preeminent [priˈemınənt] adj much more important, more powerful, or better than any others of its kind ▪ his pre eminent position in society >pre eminently adv >pre eminence n [U] …

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