In “Defend the Castle!” Professor Gideon Kanner adds to my recent review of “The Castle,” a comedy about an Australian family’s fight to preserve their home from a Kelo-esque taking. Professor Kanner clarifies the Australian condemnation law:
And by the way, speaking of things Australian, we might mention thatthe Aussie term for eminent domain is “resumption.” It is derived fromthe fact that the original Crown land grants in Australia had aprovision reserving to the the Crown the right to resume title uponpayment of compensation.
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