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Originally Posted by ficbot
But the government CAN take away your house---I forget the legal word for it, but there was a case of it here recently where they needed to build a subway exit in a certain spot to make it an accessible station, and they offered to buy the house at fair market value and the people living there said no. So there was a way they could force it to serve the public good. It doesn't happen often, but it CAN happen.
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Certainly. In the UK they're called "Compulsory Purchase Orders" and frequently happen when new roads, railways lines, airport runways, etc, are built.
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but certainly, 50 years after an author has died, I don't think their heirs have any more moral claim on it than the rest of society does.
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What "moral claim" do you have on a house that your grandfather built 50 years before you were born?
