Before Eminent Domain(English, Hardcover, Reynolds Susan)

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Before Eminent Domain(English, Hardcover, Reynolds Susan) is written by Reynolds Susan and published by The University of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807833533 (ISBN 10) and 9780807833537 (ISBN 13).

This title dates the practice as far back as the Middle Ages in Europe. In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property. ""Before Eminent Domain"" concentrates on western Europe and the English colonies in America. As Reynolds 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. She cites examples of the practice since the early Middle Ages in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and from the seventeenth century in America. Reynolds concludes with a discussion of past and present ideas and assumptions about community, individual rights, and individual property that underlie the practice of expropriation but have been largely ignored by historians of both political and legal thought.