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v

  1. To expropriate private property, usually land, for public use. See also appropriation and eminent domain.
  2. To adjudge someone guilty of a crime or to impose sentence, especially a severe penalty such as death or life imprisonment.
  3. To adjudge something, often a building, to be illegal, unfit for public use, or a hazard to the public and order it to be destroyed.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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