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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Under Eminent Domain
Implies the use of many, or by the public. It may be limited to the inhabitants of a small or restricted locality, but must be in common, and not for a particular individual. Lewis, Em. Dom. c.
7; Pocantico Water Works Co. v. Bird, 130 N. Y. 249, 29 N. E. 246; St. Helena Water Co. v. Forbes, 62 Cal. 182, 45 Am. Uep. 659.
It arises when the sovereign power is essential to an enterprise, and is for that reason therein exercised; Bound iv.
R. Co., 50 Fed. 312.
See Eminent Domain.
See Eminent Domain.