1.   The presidential agreement specified that properties unjustly confiscated be returned to their rightful owners, or the owners be compensated if this was no longer possible.

2.   Is the owner to be compensated for this loss in value?

3.   And they are pressing for anti-regulatory legislation requiring that property owners be compensated for declines in property values when wetlands are regulated.

4.   As a result, government land-use efforts to protect the environment could be scaled-back severely to avoid the costs of compensating property owners.

5.   As such, eminent domain was perceived by most Americans as a sometimes bothersome but nevertheless acceptable exercise of government power as long as owners were justly compensated.

6.   Before disbanding this month, Parliament passed a constitutional amendment allowing the government to take land without compensating the owner.

7.   But the owners overplayed their hand, arguing that taxpayers must compensate land owners even for brief development delays.

8.   Chrysler said it will compensate owners who have already had the brakes repaired.

9.   Defenders of Wildlife has established a fund to compensate livestock owners whenever a wolf kills cattle or sheep.

10.   Earlier, Judiciary Committee passed bill requiring that private property owners be compensated for losses resulting from federal regulations.