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<p><b>Eminent domain</b>, also known as <b>land acquisition</b>, <b>compulsory purchase</b>, <b>resumption</b>, <b>compulsory acquisition</b>, or <b>expropriation</b>, is the compulsory acquisition of <a href="page.php?w=private_property">private property</a> for public use. It does not include the power to take and transfer ownership of private property from one property owner to another private property owner without a valid public purpose and the payment of <a href="page.php?w=just_compensation">just compensation</a>. This power can be <a href="page.php?w=Legislature">legislatively</a></p><p>
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