United States v. Acres of Land More or Less in Townships of Rockaway and Jefferson County of Morris State of New Jersey O’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““In deciding what is just compensation for a public taking of private property, courts normally determine and award the fair value of the property at the time of taking. But usually the taking occurs at the beginning of the condemnation proceeding, while the award comes at the end. This means that there is likely to be a substantial period during which the owner has neither his land nor equivalent value in money. In such circumstances, just compensation must include, in addition to fair value at the time of taking, an award for the intervening deprival. To supply this essential element of just compensation, Congress has required that the United States pay 6 per cent interest upon the value at taking from that date until the award is made and paid. 40 U.S.C. § 258a. “Alternatively, the same section authorized the United States to eliminate or minimize this interval of deprivation and the attendant necessity for compensation in the form of interest by making an advance estimate of value and paying that sum into court at the time of taking for the immediate use of the owner or owners of the condemned land. * * * “Where a single parcel is taken, a deposit of estimated compensation is obviously a tender of a specific sum in a way that makes it immediately available to anyone who can show clear title to that parcel. But rule 71A(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as promulgated in 1951, expressly authorizes the joinder of ‘separate pieces of property, whether in the same or diff”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Foster v. Sanders

2. “conflicting ownership claims within individual parcels.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Acres of Land