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Just Compensation For Real Estate Condemnation, Thomas L. Dettelbach
Just Compensation For Real Estate Condemnation, Thomas L. Dettelbach
Cleveland State Law Review
The purpose of the requirement of just compensation contained in the United States Constitution, where private property is taken for public use, is to place the financial losses caused through public improvements on the public rather than entirely upon those who happen to lie in the path of the project. Since the nation is proliferating with everexpanding highways and urban renewal programs, and these programs involve the exercise of the power eminent domain, controversies related to fair value for property taken are numerous. Relatively few cases in modern times reach the Supreme Court, but through previous decisions, affirmed or cited …
Landlord's Retention Of Power To Control Premises, Jan S. Moskowitz
Landlord's Retention Of Power To Control Premises, Jan S. Moskowitz
Cleveland State Law Review
Generally, the landlord is under an affirmative obligation to exercise ordinary care to keep those parts of the premises over which he has retained possession and control in a reasonably safe condition. The test of possession and control is whether or not the landlord has the power and the right to admit people to or exclude them from the premises.
Duty Of Landlord To Put Tenant Into Possession, Loraine P. O'Keefe
Duty Of Landlord To Put Tenant Into Possession, Loraine P. O'Keefe
Cleveland State Law Review
As pioneering judges base their decisions more and more on fairness and practicality, timeliness becomes an important test for any rule of law. This test becomes particularly pertinent when there exist, side by side, in connection with a single point of law, two irreconcilable views, both of which can boast of proud precedents and a heavy "weight of authority." Such are the two views in regard to the very old landlord-tenant problem with which we are here concerned: in the absence of an express provision, is there implied, in the lessor-lessee relationship itself, an obligation on the part of the …