"The right of private property is an original and fundamental right, existing anterior to the formation of the government itself...

Government is the necessary burden imposed on man as the only means of securing the protection of his rights. And this protection-the primary and only legitimate purpose of civil government, is accomplished by protecting man in his rights of personal security, personal liberty, and private property...

The fundamental principles set forth in the bill of rights in our constitution, declaring the inviolability of private property, were evidently designed to protect the right of private property as one of the primary and original objects of civil society."

Bank of Toledo v. Toledo (1853), 1 Ohio St. 622, 632 (Bartley, C.J.)