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Definition
Determination by a government, or by a public agency, that a particular private property is unsafe for occupation, or is to be taken over to make way for a public-interest project. A property may be condemned without the owner's consent, but is expropriated (see expropriation) usually on payment of just compensation.
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condemnation is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Real Estate & Buildings subjects.
condemnation appears in the definitions of the following terms: confiscation and involuntary conversion
condemnation appears in these other term: condemnation award
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