Eminent domain, a modern doctrine; applies to personal property; personal property seized by royal purveyors; damages in; does not exist in England; growth of in United States; public service corporations entitled to; extended to public service corporations; to private corporations; to the taking of easements; damages given for land damaged as well as taken; only for a public use; national uses; State uses; parks and playgrounds; railways, telegraphs, etc. what is a public use; under State constitutions; increased application of; water subject to, in the arid States; powers of Federal government; no more land to be taken than needed.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

Cum autem ad idem, unde semel profecta sunt, cuncta astra redierint, eandemque totius anni descriptionem longis intervallis retulerint, tum ille vere vertens annus appellari potest....
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

No means in the power of the United States promised so certainly to effect this desirable object, as the removal of neighbours whose hostility could be diminished only by terror, and whose resentments were to be assuaged only by fear.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

When the five years' leases had run out no attempt was made to renew them; but zemindaries were let on yearly leases until some permanent system could be devised, and this arrangement continued in force until the end of Warren Hastings's administration.
— from India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company by James Talboys Wheeler