Abstract
Eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and police power are three legal tenets by which the state can assert its dominion over private property for the public good. The state can, by exercising these powers, become involved in questions of water rights, mineral rights, and surface rights.
The line between compensable taking of private property and noncompensable regulation in the form of police power, if it exists, “is a line arbitrary in its precise location, but clear in the general criteria by which it should be found.”
Charles E. Corker
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Tank, R.W. (1983). Eminent Domain, Inverse Condemnation, and Police Power. In: Legal Aspects of Geology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4376-9_5
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