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語源

Calque of New Latin dominium ēminēns (literally “supreme ownership”).

名詞

eminent domain (uncountable) (property law)

1. (US, Philippines) The right of a government over the private property within its jurisdiction. Usually invoked to compel land owners to sell their property in preparation for a major construction project such as a freeway.

   The city council used eminent domain to make me sell my store.

2. (historical) In feudalism, the legal interest or rights of a lord or superior in an estate in land held in fee, as opposed to the vassal's or tenant's interest.

同意語

• compulsory purchase (UK, Ireland, New Zealand), compulsory acquisition (Australia), expropriation (Canada, South Africa)
• superiority (Scots law)

反意語

• (feudal law): utile domain, inferiority (Scots law)

使用する際の注意点

Eminent is frequently confused with immanent, immanant, and emanate, which are homophones and near-rhymes in many accents, leading to pseudowords like “immanent domain”.