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Special Benefits

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

Any benefits not conjectural or speculative, which result to the market value of property as a result of an improvement are special benefits. 267 111. 124.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Special benefits which are to be considered in making just compensation for property damaged by, but not taken for, a public use, are such benefits from the proposed public work as appreciably enhance the value of the particular tract. See 258 111. 133, Ann. Cas. 1914B, 473, 101 N. E. 247.