private property

Defined in 4 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)

United States Code

42 U.S.C. § 9661 — for purposes of this section (2 versions over time)

As used in subsection (a), the term “private property” means all property which is not owned by a department, agency, or instrumentality of—

(A) the United States, or

(B) the State of New York (or any public agency or authority thereof).

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

That which is one's own or which belongs or inhered exclusively in an individual person. See 179 U. S. 141, 45 L. Ed. 126, 21 Sup. Ct. Rep. 48. See, also, 29 Miss. 21, 64 Am. Dec. 126.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

As used in a constitution, the term applies to such property as belongs absolutely to an individual, and of which he has the exclusive right of disposition; property of a specific, fixed, and tangible nature, capable of being had in possession and transmitted to another, as houses, lands, and chattels Com’rs of Homoehitto River v. Withers, 29 Miss. 32, 64 Am. Dec. 126.