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Inverse condemnation is a term which describes a claim brought against the government in which a property owner seeks compensation for a `taking' of his property under the Fifth Amendment. In states that prohibit uncompensated taking or damaging, physical damage to property is included in this definition.
Inverse condemnation is a legal concept and cause of action used by property owners when a governmental entity takes an action which damages or decreases the value of private property without obtaining ownership of the property through the use of eminent domain. Thus, unlike the typical eminent domain case, the property owner is the plaintiff ...
Market value is the prevailing, but not exclusive measure of determining the just compensation owed to a landowner under the Fifth Amendment. Fair Market Value is defined by appraisers as the most probable price, in terms of cash that would be paid by a willing buyer to a willing seller, each being fully informed of the property's good and bad features, with the property being exposed on the ...
The fertile octogenarian and the unborn widow are two legal fictions from the law of real property (and trusts) that can be used either to invoke the rule against perpetuities to make an interest in property void or, alternatively and much more frequently, to demonstrate the seemingly bizarre results that can occur as a result of the rule. The ...
Condemnation may refer to: Damnation , the antithesis of salvation The act of eminent domain which refers to the power of a government to take private property for public use
The Federal Real Estate Board was a United States federal agency established in 1921 within the Treasury Department to manage federal properties (excluding public lands such as National Forests and Bureau of Land Management land), with its purpose being to reduce expenses by coordinating the use of real estate across federal agencies.
Examples of usage in real property damage: Diminution In Value Appraisals used extensively by the legal and title industry in assessing damages. Elliott and Company DIV Appraisals. Courtney vs. Publix, Florida District Court of Appeal, (2d Cir.), No. 2D00-1485, 2001.FindLaw; and Kanner, Equity in Toxic Tort Litigation: Unjust Enrichment and the ...
Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral is an article in the scholarly legal literature (Harvard Law Review, Vol.85, p. 1089, April 1972), authored by Judge Guido Calabresi (of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and A. Douglas Melamed, currently a professor at Stanford Law School.