Ex parte Melendez

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• “Whatever restraints the Legislature imposes upon the use and enjoyment of property with the reason and principle of this duty the owner must submit to. It is a regulation, and not a taking; an exercise of police power, and not of eminent domain.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).