Private Property
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Within the constitutional requirement of compensation for "private property taken for public use," it includes, of course, all property owned by individuals, and also certain property held by public bodies, such as municipal corporations, which is held not for the performance of the public duties devolving upon it, but for purposes not deemed strictly public and political.