What would you do and how would you feel if someone stole your property and home. In most cases this would be unlawful theft. But the government and big companies uses lawful theft under the eminent domain law. Eminent Domain is a legal way for the government and big companies to steal your property and home. How would you feel if someone stole your property and home? In most cases this would be unlawful theft. But the government uses lawful theft to do just that. Eminent domain also known as the right for the government to take your property and home for the public good, it is the power of the state to snatch a person’s land for public…show more content… Now big companies are using the land for their own personal use to build daycare for their employees and to build higher priced apartments and condos. This by no means is in the best interest of the public nor is it public use if you are poor. As I stated earlier some people are for eminent domain and some people are against it. Most people like the law because it is used to build better highways and roads. This serves the public, so that they can get where they are going faster and if kept up it doesn’t mess up there car. People that are mainly against eminent domain are the ones that are losing their homes, land and livelihood. Mrs. Lemon had good memories in the house that she lived in of her husband and children. She won enough money to buy her own place, but the money want and cannot replace the memories that she held dear. Mrs. Lemon died at the age of 99 after she had won her lawsuit against one of the biggest hospitals in Georgia. Because of Mrs. Lemon the eminent domain laws have changed in Georgia. One of the ways that the law has changed is that the General Assembly decides when the right of eminent domain may be used. The Georgia Act calls for tougher requirements and procedures for big companies and the government than the law previously permitted. The complete formal changes, aimed for the safety of people that are losing their land and or home and business, will require much more time, effort and payment on the part of both party to make sure agreement with the new procedures. The revised definitions of “public use” are the key to the legislation, however, as in many other states; the idea of “community profit” has been removed from the legal setting for a good reason for condemning the property. Although changes in the law are to give land owners more arguing privileges it as well places extra burdens of evidence on the government to show that
