 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1871 - 818 pages
...109; Stein v. Mayor, &c,, of Mobile, 24 Ala. 591. 3. The statute is not in conflict with the clause of the constitution which prohibits the taking of " private property for public use" without compensation; because not an exercise of the power of " eminent domain." — 4 Comst.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1871 - 708 pages
...the Constitution which prohibits the taking of property without due process of law, or that clause of the Constitution which prohibits the taking of private property for public use without justcotnpensation. Now, sir, it has been adjudicated over and over again, in the State... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - 1875 - 856 pages
...convey to the State a single passenger or freight car, or one of its most insignificant depot-buildings, that provision of the constitution which prohibits the taking of private property, except by due process of law — that which prohibits the taking of private property for public use... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1876 - 1184 pages
...convey to the State a single passenger or freight car, or one of its most insignificant depot-buildings, that provision of the constitution which prohibits the taking of private property, except by due process of law — that which prohibits the taking of private property for public use... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1884 - 798 pages
...Well*, 2 Scott [N. 0.], 331 ; 2 Y. & J. 196.) The acts are unconstitutional because they violate the provision of the Constitution which prohibits the taking of private property for a public use without compensation. (Const., art. 1, § 6; Laws of 1880, chap. 381, § 5 ; id., chap.... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1886 - 94 pages
...about by the sacrifice of the interests of individual citizens, falls within the intent and meaning of the Constitution, which prohibits the taking of private property for public use without just compensation. We do not say that for all purposes these claims were "prop erty " in... | |
 | 1886 - 862 pages
...granted such exemption, admit that the injury inflicted is not within the protection of that clause of the constitution which prohibits the taking of private property for public use without just compensation: was it the intention or within the contemplation of the legislature... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1886 - 64 pages
...about by the sacrifice of the interests of individual citizens, falls within the intent and meaning of the Constitution, which prohibits the taking of private property for public use without just compensation, We do not say that for all purposes these claims were " property " in... | |
 | 1893 - 1278 pages
...sustained by her. Whether or not property of the relator was taken, within the spirit and true intent of the constitution, which prohibits the taking of private property for public use without just compensation, is not now open for consideration, because the relator, in those eminent... | |
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... bargain" (again using Madison's word), by which the present peace and quiet of the United States, as well as their future prosperity and greatness, were largely secured, and which was brought about by the sacrifice of the interests of individual citizens,... 
