Carmichael, "that your
department can take away Cecile's property in that cavalier fashion, and
without any regard to the rise in values?"
"I'm ofraid so, Mrs. Cormichael."
"What have you to say to that, Mr. Coristine, from a legal standpoint?"
enquired Mrs. Carruthers.
"A deed of land made by the Government, or by a private individual,
conveys, when, as in this case, all provisions have been complied with,
an inalienable title."
"There is such a thing as expropriation," suggested Mr. Lamb, rather
annoyed to find a lawyer there.
"Expropriation is a municipal affair in cities and towns, or it may be
national and provincial in the case of chartered railways or national
parks, in all which cases remuneration is by arbitration, not by the
will of any expropriating body."
"The deportment may regord this as a provincial offair. Ot any rate, it
hos octed in this way before with success."
"I know that the department has induced people to surrender their rights
for the sake of its popularity, but by wheedling, not by law or justice,
and, generally, there has been some condition of payment, or something
else, not complied with.
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