Record v. Vermont Highway Board

How courts have described this case

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• “[W]e are not to presume that the legislature intended to work any change in the common law beyond what the statute itself declares in either express terms, or by unmistakable implication.”
• “In construing this statute we are not to presume that the legislature intended to work any change in the common law beyond what the statute itself declares in either express terms, or by unmistakable implication.”
• Legislature responded to inequity created where business received no compensation although it was “invaded” by the taking “and the yield of the business [was] lessened or destroyed as a result of the taking of the land upon which the business is situated”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).