For purposes of sections 76-701 to 76-726 : (1) Condemner means any legal entity that by law has been granted the right to exercise the power of eminent domain and includes the state and any governmental or political subdivision thereof; (2) Condemnee means any person, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or association owning or having an encumbrance on any interest in property that is sought to be acquired by a condemner or in possession of or occupying any such property; (3) Property means any such interest in real or personal property as the condemner is empowered by law to acquire for public use; and (4) County judge means the county judge of the county where condemnation proceedings provided by such sections are had.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-701
Terms, defined
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Rose v. City of Lincoln (1989)
Most recently applied in Hike v. State (July 2017)
Laws 1951, c. 101, § 1, p. 452; Laws 1993, LB 121, § 478; Laws 2006, LB 924, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nebraska Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nebraska statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.