Not Losing the Forest for the Trees: Distinguishing Conservation Transfer Fees from Other Private Transfer Fees
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This article argues that private transfer fees, when used to fund conservation and environmental stewardship, meet the historical and modern requirements for a valid servitude, that courts should hold them enforceable, and that policymakers should exempt them from general private transfer fee restrictions.
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