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Synopsis
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Price Act Relating to Real Estate in Pennsylvania: Act April 18, 1853, P. L. 503
1. The State unquestionably has power to control the use, transfer and devolution of property, and that power is limited in this country by public opinion and by various constitutional provisions which may be summed up for the purposes of our dis cassion in the requirements that (1) there must be some ade quate reason for regulating the ownership of property, (2) just compensation must be made to an owner whose property is taken, and (3) the proceedings must be by due process of law.
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