compulsory purchase
Government takes property
Compulsory purchase is a legal process by which a government or authorized body acquires private property without the owner's consent, typically for public use such as roads, railways, or urban development.
The owner must be compensated, though the amount is often contested.
In the United States, the equivalent term is eminent domain.
The council issued a compulsory purchase order to clear land for the new bypass.
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- eminent domainForced government land acquisition
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- public useAvailable for community benefit
public works · property rights · indemnification · takings · seizure · compensation claim · relocation assistance · public interest · preemption · fair market value · surveyor · railway · eviction · market value · landowner · infrastructure development · dispossession · bulldozer
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- urban renewalredevelopment, rezoning, demolition, land acquisition, eminent domain
- requisitionprocurement, requisition, acquisition, commandeering, seizure
- roadshighway, highways, road, freeway, roads
- local governmentcity manager, aldermen, city hall, councillors, councillor
- public housingpublic housing, social housing, council housing, housing estates, housing project
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