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" Fifth Amendment's guarantee that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation was designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by... "
Public Policy Editorials - Page 184
by Allen Ripley Foote - 1903
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 82

1916 - 506 pages
...Limitations. And so it has been determined that the clause in the federal Constitution providing that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation is no part of the right itself, but only a limitation of the right. In other words, the right of eminent...
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The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General ..., Volume 18

Isaac Grant Thompson - 1876 - 842 pages
...are unconstitutional and therefore void. Section 18 of article I of the constitution provides that "private property shall not be taken for a public use * * * without just compensation." The constitution of nearly every State in the Union contains a provision in substance like this, which...
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Atlantic Reporter, Volume 83

1912 - 1148 pages
...VALIDITY OF STATUTES— TAXING POWER— JUDICIAL AUTHORITY. And Const, art. 1, § 16, which provides that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation, refers to the exercise of the right of eminent domain and illegal exactions disguised under the name...
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The New York Supplement, Volume 168

1918 - 1258 pages
...state." One of the constitutional safeguards that the city cannot violate is that which provides that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation. Article 1, § 6. Ever since the case of Story v. NY El. RR, 90 NY 122, 43 Am. Rep. 146, it has been...
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 20

1900 - 1098 pages
...herein, is repugnant to the 6th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation. "Fifth. That the said act of the legislature, as interpreted by the decision herein, is repugnant to...
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Constitutional Law in the United States

Emlin McClain - 1904 - 490 pages
...the other to the compensation which must be made ; for while the specific provisions are only that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation, such a provision is interpreted as meaning that the state or federal government shall not take private...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General ..., Volume 106

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1906 - 1108 pages
...construction cf artificial obstructions in a natural watercourse amounts to a taking of the land, within the constitutional provision that private property...taken for a public use without just compensation: See the monographic notes to Vanderlip v. Grand Rapids, 16 Am. St. Rep. 611; Sheehy v. Kansas City...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General ..., Volume 109

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1906 - 1116 pages
...of the municipality is cut off or very substantially impaired, enable him to recover damages under a constitutional provision that private property shall...taken for a public use without just compensation: Gilbert v. Greely etc. BB Co., 13 Colo. 501, 22 Pac. 814; Union Pac. By. Co. v. Foley, 19 Colo. 280,...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 46

Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1906 - 744 pages
...regulating the exercise of the right of eminent domain, is, so far as applicable herein, as follows: "Private property shall not be taken for a public use * * without just compensation * * first assessed and tendered": Const. Or. Art. I, § 18. This clause impliedly prohibits the taking...
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Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 107

Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Conway Robinson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan, James Muscoe Matthews, George W. Hansbrough, Martin Parks Burks - 1908 - 1060 pages
...property is taken in condemnation proceedings under constitutional and statutory provisions declaring that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation, the •'just compensation'' contemplated is the market value of the property in view of any purpose...
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