| "A prohibition simply upon the use of property for purposes that are declared, by valid legislation, to be injurious to the
health, morals, or safety of the community, cannot, in any just sense, be deemed a taking or an appropriation of property
for the public benefit. Such legislation does not disturb the owner in the control or use of his property for lawful purposes,
nor restrict his right to dispose of it, but is only a declaration by the State that its use by any one, for certain forbidden
purposes, is prejudicial to the public interests. . . . The power which the States have of prohibiting such use by individuals
of their property as will be prejudicial to the health, the morals, or the safety of the public, is not - and,consistently with
the existence and safety of organized society, cannot be - burdened with the condition that the State must compensate
such individual owners for pecuniary losses they may sustain, by reason of their not being permitted, by a noxious use of
their property, to inflict injury upon the community." |