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Terms Used In Indiana Code 8-23-18-2

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
   Sec. 2. Whenever the department is unable to agree with an owner of real property or a right described in section 1 of this chapter upon the damages sustained by the owner or upon the purchase price of the real property in fee or the right, interest, or easement sought to be acquired, the department may proceed in the name of the state in the exercise of the right of eminent domain to condemn and acquire the real property or right.

As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.227.