Opinion ID: 1100036
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Heading: Just Compensation to the Full Extent of An Owner's Loss

Text: Property cannot be taken or damaged by the state or its political subdivisions except for public purposes and with just compensation paid to the owner or into court for his benefit. La.Const.1974, Art. 1, § 4. In every expropriation, the owner must be compensated to the full extent of his loss. Id. Thus, our constitution does not simply require that the owner of condemned property be compensated with the market value of the property taken and severance damages to his remainder, but that he be placed in as good a position pecuniarily as [he] enjoyed prior to the taking. State v. Constant, 369 So.2d 699, 702 (La.1979). See Note, Expropriation: Compensating the Landowner to the Full Extent of His Loss, 40 La.L.Rev. 817 (1980).