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Cactus,
An owner can decide to keep something. If they can buy whether you want to sell or not - who really owns it?
And the government doesn't decide what compensation is just. The property must be appraised by an independant appraiser and the government must pay the appraised value.
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The appraiser looks at what the house would sell for assuming the buyer didn't have to buy and the seller didn't have to sell - but it's amazing what the government can do to drop the value of the land with a little environmental regulation or declaring a whole area blighted.

Moreover, "just compensation" is for the property being taken - not it's replacement value. In other words, if I buy and fix up a house and it is condemned for "the public good" (new commercial park, baby!), then I have to take the money I receive and try to buy a new home. Chances are I won't find one in a similar area and similar condition. At least, the people I've spoken to who have actually gone through the process have had that problem.

Anyhow, if it's just compensation in the eyes of the law but not the eyes of the "owner", how "just" is it really?
 
The term you are all erroneously bandying about is

EMINENT domain; not "imminant domain." For that matter, you did not even spell imminent correctly.

EMINENT DOMAIN: The inherent power of a governmental entity to take PRIVATELY OWNED property, especially land, and convert it to public use, subject to reasonable compensation for the taking. - Black's Law Dictionary

Next week we'll discuss LOOSE (opposite of tight) and LOSE (opposite of win) and THEN (temporal) versus THAN (comparative).......... :rolleyes:
 
Anyhow, if it's just compensation in the eyes of the law but not the eyes of the "owner", how "just" is it really?
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Well Ben, I never said that it was necessarily fair, just constitutional! The purpose of EMINENT domain is to prevent one property owner from stopping a project deemed necessary (such as highways) or for the same property owner from making a windfall profit from the people (government).

As for people not getting what they think their property is worth, it's common for people to tell the tax man that it's only worth $50,000 yet tell the highway department it's worth $200,000. :D
 
I seem to remember a case here in Orange County CA a few years ago . A piece of land used to grow strawberries was "condemned" so the locals could use it for a school . The price was set and the "owners" of old were allowed to grow strawberries until "the day" came . Theeeeeennnnn the "powers that be" realized that they could make a big profit by selling the land to a developer for tons more than they "paid" for it . The strawberry grower sued and I think he won . Not sure . It seems that this here Emee nent domain is a lot like the classic W.C.Fields line "Go away little boy , you BOTHER me".
 
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