Abstract

Controls on the private use of land are not of recent vintage-they go back at least to the Romans,' if not into the darker past, and find expression in various statutes and judge-made doctrines of centuries ago.2 Despite Blackstone's overly broad pronouncement that private property rights could not be violated even for the general good of the whole community,3 property rights had in fact been limited for centuries before Blackstone's

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