Eminent Domain refers to the power of the government to take private property and convert it into public use. The Fifth Amendment provides that the government may only exercise this power if it provides just compensation to the property owners. Cornell.edu .

In reality counties of which there are some 2,700 down from 3,300 in the United States, most of which have been overburdened with nepotism for so long they have become fiefdoms of one family, use ED and its related statute that ok's legalized theft Adverse Possession to persecute residents and business owners they don't like.