Before Eminent Domain: Toward a History of Expropriation of Land for the Common Good
Susan Reynolds
Abstract
This book presents a history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800. It contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property. The book concentrates on western Europe and the English colonies in America. As it argues, expropriation was a common legal practice in many societies in which individuals had rights to land. It was generally accepted that land could be taken from them, with compensation, when the community, however defined, needed it. ... More
Keywords: expropriation of land, common good, private property, English colonies, community, individual rights, individual property
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780807833537 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: July 2014 | DOI:10.5149/9780807895863_reynolds |
