{"id":10853,"date":"2017-12-15T20:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10853"},"modified":"2017-12-15T21:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:05:51","slug":"just-compensation-a-payment-by-the-government-for-property-it-has-taken-under-eminent-domain-which-must-be-fair-both-to-the-person-whose-property-is-taken-and-to-the-public-who-must-pay-for-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10853","title":{"rendered":"Land Damages – a payment by the government for property it has taken under eminent domain, which must be fair both to the person whose property is taken and to the public, who must pay for it"},"content":{"rendered":"

just compensation<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(16c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Under the Fifth Amendment, a payment by the government for property it has taken under eminent domain \u2014 usually the property\u2019s fair market value, so that the owner is theoretically no worse off after the taking.<\/strong> \u2014 aka adequate compensation<\/strong><\/em>; due compensation<\/strong><\/em><\/span>; land damages<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A familiar term in constitutional provisions and statutes granting or regulating the exercise of power of eminent domain in the condemnation and taking of private property.\u00a0 Reasonable compensation.\u00a0 A compensation which is just, not merely to the individual whose property is taken, but to the public which is the pay for it.\u00a0 27 Am J2d Em D \u00a7 266<\/span>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Th full and perfect equivalent of the property taken and the damages inflicted by the taking.\u00a0 27 Am J2d Em D \u00a7 266<\/span>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not the investment, but the “value of the interest” in land taken by eminent domain that is guaranteed to the owner; the government may neither confiscate the owner’s bargain, nor be required to assume his loss.\u00a0 Kinter v United States<\/em> (CA3 Pa) 156 F2d 5, 172 ALR 232.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A term originating in the Fifth Amendment prohibition against the government taking private property for public use without “just compensation,” meaning that the government can exercise the power of eminent domain only if it provides payment that is fair both to the person whose property is taken and to the public, which must pay for it.\u00a0 Such payment includes the monetary value of the\u00a0 property taken and the damages caused by the taking.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See condemnation<\/em>; condemnation proceeding<\/em>; inverse condemnation<\/em>. [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>by<\/b><\/span><\/strong> Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>with<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Pronunciations<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\n<\/span><\/a><\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]: Ballantine\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>Legal<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Assistant<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by<\/b><\/span><\/strong> Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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