...asserted, but through purchase from private owners. Article 27 of the constitution of 1917 provides that: The ownership of lands and waters comprised within...nation, which has had and has the right to transmit the title thereof to private persons, thereby constituting private property. Private property shall...

...mineral deposits were declared to be the property of "the nation." There is, to be sure, a provision that private property shall not be expropriated except...of public utility and by means of indemnification, and another stating that no law shall be given retroactive effect to the prejudice of any person whatsoever....

...[Extracts from Section I. article 27, of the Constitution of Mexico of 1817, relating to waters] ART. 27. The ownership of lands and waters comprised within...private persons, thereby constituting private property. ******* The nation shall have at all times the right to impose on private property such limitations...

...limits of the national territory, which ownership is, by the terms of the constitution, declared to be " vested originally in the nation which has had, and...persons, thereby constituting private property.'' The right of the nation at all times to impose such limitations on private property and upon the development...

...forward group interests. The Constitution, while recognizing the right of private property, declared that "the ownership of lands and waters comprised within...national territory is vested originally in the Nation." The state was asserted to "have at all times the right to impose on private property such limitations...

...expropriation, like oil expropriation, is article 27 of the 1917 constitution, which stipulates that "the ownership of lands and waters comprised within...national territory is vested originally in the Nation." Also, the State was declared to "have at all times the right to impose on private property such limitations...

...translation of pertinent excerpts from articles 27 and 33 : AUT. 27. The ownership of lands and waters within the limits of the national territory is vested...thereby constituting private property. Private property snail not be expropriated except for cause of public utility * and by means of indemnification. The...

...been violated, because in saying that ownership of the lands and waters embraced within the limits of national territory is vested originally in the Nation, which has had and has the right to transfer dominion thereof to private persons, thus constituting private ownership, and that expropriation...

...article 27, which has been the legal basis for all subsequent agrarian legislation. Article 27 states: "The ownership of lands and waters comprised within...private persons, thereby constituting private property." Under article 27, three procedures were established for bringing about a more widespread division of...

...make an early examination of the place of expropriation in present-day Mexico. Under the Constitution, "private property shall not be expropriated except...of public utility and by means of indemnification" (art. 27). In the past, there was considerable question concerning the method of expropriation and...