11.   Because Americans who have property taken by the federal government can challenge it in federal court, Tauzin said his legislation would offer them a local remedy.

12.   A city council can take property just as well as a planning commission can.

13.   A girl, however, takes any property she possesses to her new husband and his family and looks after his parents.

14.   Across the country, it would seem, human beings are taking on properties of musical instruments.

15.   Also, when a motel company has taken over many properties with other affiliations, the bedroom design cannot be consistent, although there may be a minimum size.

16.   Collins said landowners tried to prevent the seizure, but the Michigan Supreme Court said the government had the right to take the property.

17.   Cincinnati police specialist Dave Kelly said his department routinely asks a federal agency to take the property when the prosecutor declines to file a forfeiture proceeding.

18.   Electric and telephone utilities avoided zoning hassles by using their power of eminent domain, allowing them to legally take property if they compensate the landowners.

19.   Eventually the property was taken over by Rose Holdings, a holding company of the Bank of America.

20.   Glen drafted a lawsuit claiming that the federal government had taken the property without just compensation in violation of the Constitution.