Harvey v. Sines’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"But the Legislature exceeded the limits of its authority when it undertook, in the same section, to forfeit the property-the title and estate-of all unknown owners upon their failure to produce, within the time designated, the evidence of their title. It needs no argument and no citation of authority to show that the title of the unknown owners of these lots cannot be forfeited without due process of law; and that such legislation as this is far from having even the semblance of due process of law. Whilst it might not be appropriate to comment upon, or to criticise, the questionable propriety of this fruitless effort to confiscate the property which the State, more than 100 years ago, in a spirit of gratitude, voluntarily donated to the heroic men who fought with such signal and such distinguished courage in the protracted struggle for our independence, we should perform our duty but imperfectly if we hesitated to declare, with unequivocal emphasis, that this feature of the Act is plainly in contravention of the twenty-third [now twenty-fourth] Article of the Declaration of Rights."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ellis v. McKenzie

2. “1. Does the DMIA violate Article 24 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and Article III, § 40 of the Maryland Constitution by retrospectively taking a vested property interest from a mineral owner and transferring it to a surface owner without compensation?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ellis v. McKenzie

3. “as a condition of dismissal of the action, if the owner of the mineral interest pays the litigation expenses incurred by the surface owner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ellis v. McKenzie