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  2. Eminent domain - Wikipedia

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    If the government appears to have acted unfairly, the action can be challenged in a court of law by citizens. [15] Land acquisition in India is currently governed by the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, which came into force on 1 January 2014. [16]

  3. Eminent domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, eminent domain is the power of a state or the federal government to take private property for public use while requiring just compensation to be given to the original owner. It can be legislatively delegated by the state to municipalities, government subdivisions, or even to private persons or corporations, when they are ...

  4. Regulatory takings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1922, the Supreme Court held in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon that governmental regulations that went "too far" were a taking. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for the majority of the court, stated that "[t]he general rule at least is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking."

  5. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government. [1] Pursuant to the Property Clause of the United States Constitution (Article 4, section 3, clause 2), Congress has the power to retain, buy, sell, and regulate federal lands, such as by limiting cattle grazing on them.

  6. The Government Took a Developer's Land and Gave It to a ... - AOL

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    That sort of broad deference, Bowers argues in a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case, nullifies the Fifth Amendment's "public use" requirement for government takings of ...

  7. Just compensation - Wikipedia

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    Usually, the government files an eminent domain action to take private property for public use and just compensation is determined at trial if the landowner does not settle with the government. However, when the government fails to file an eminent domain action and pay for the taking, the owner may seek compensation in an action called inverse ...

  8. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    After filing an affidavit with the government's agent, and paying him a $10 fee, the homesteader could begin occupying their claim. The government agent received the same fee for homestead land as he would have received if that land was sold for cash, 1/2 from the homesteader's filing fee and the other half from the patent (certificate) fee.

  9. Canada to lease government land in plan to add millions of homes

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    The government said the land is underutilized. The property could potentially include abandoned industrial parks, sites of defunct government companies and schools with low enrollment.