EMINENT DOMAIN. The right which people or government retain over the estates
of individuals, to resume the same for public use.
2. It belongs to the legislature to decide what improvements are of
sufficient importance to justify the exercise of the right of eminent
domain. See 2 Hill. Ab. 568 1 U. S. Dig. 560; 1 Am. Eq. Dig. 312 3 Toull. n.
30 p. 23; Ersk. hist. B. 2) tit. 1, s. 2; Grotius, h.t. See Dominium.