Land Use Regulation and the Concept of Takings in Nineteenth Century America

Abstract

Police regulations are legal and binding, because for the general benefit; and do not proceed to the length of impairing any right in the proper sense of that term .... •.. Every public regulation in a city, may, and does, in some sense, limit and restrict the absolute right that existed previously. But this is not considered as an injury. So far from it, the individual, as well as others, is supposed to be benefited.