Just Compensation and ‘Solatium’: Comparative approaches in Common Law Systems

[i]n this country, the land acquisition statutes have not only retained the English concept of the market value of land, but also have gone further: our legislation provides for other factors to be taken into account which an ordinary seller of land would not be able to obtain from an ordinary buyer; so that it is well understood here that the dispossessed owner may be entitled to a claim for ‘disturbance’ or a ‘solatium’ over and over the ordinary sale price of land.