Compulsory purchase
The acquisition, in accordance with statutory procedures and practice, of interests in land by a public or private body empowered so to do by and Act and authorised so to do by the appropriate minister’s confirming a compulsory purchase order with or without amendment. Such a purchase entitles the purchaser to deprive the, usually unwilling, owner of his property on payment of such compensation as is provided for by statute.
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