Evidence in Eminent Domain

Evidence in Eminent Domain Actions. No offer or counteroffer for the sale, purchase or exchange of land shall be admissible as evidence in any eminent domain action in either the Commonwealth Trial Court or the Federal District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. Nor shall evidence of money settlements, land exchanges, or land purchases by the government be admissible in such actions. Source: PL 4-13, § 4. Commission Comment: PL 4-13 took effect September 28, 1984. Section 4 of PL 6-25, the “Commonwealth Judicial Reorganization Act of 1989,” provides that “[w]herever the term ‘Commonwealth Trial Court’ appears in the Commonwealth Code, it is henceforth to be interpreted and understood to refer to the Commonwealth Superior Court.”