Eminent Domain
the power to only in cases where the public exigency demands its exercise.
It WARD. demands its exercise. only in cases where the public exigency prince. The title was instituted in A. D. 650 by Fatima, the daughter of Moham- WARD. See SCHNITZER, EDmed, and was applied to the descendants of the "Prophet." They alone were permed, and was applied to the descendants forms, amir and ameer, it is known in English-speaking countries chiefly in connection with the Ameers of Scinde vanquished by Sir Charles Napier at the battle of Meanee, Feb. 17, 1843, their vanquished by Sir Charles Napier at the the Anglo-Indian empire. born in Dublin, in 1778. He was exterritory being subsequently annexed to pelled from Trinity College, Dublin, in T, an Irish patriot; 1798, on the ground of exciting disaffection and rebellion, and having become an object of suspicion to the government, quitted Ireland. He returned there on tion and rebellion, and having become an Habeas Corpus Act, and became a mem- EMMICH ber of the Society of United Irishmen for the establishment of the independence of Ireland. In July, 1803, he was the ringleader in the rebellion in which Lord Kilwarden and others perished. He was arrested a few days afterward, tried, and executed. His fate excited ROBERT EMMET special interest from his attachment to Miss Sarah Curran, daughter of the celebrated barrister.