§ 1268.340.Interest Assessed By Court

Eminent domain trials typically put the core valuation questions -- what the property is worth, what damage or benefit affects a remainder -- before a jury. This section carves interest out of that arrangement entirely.

All of it goes to the judge: interest generally, interest that accrued because the agency possessed the property before judgment, and any offset against interest under § 1268.330 for continued possession or rents received. None of that gets submitted to the jury; the court works out the interest calculation on its own.

That division of labor reflects what interest calculation involves -- applying a statutory rate formula and offset rules to dates and figures already established elsewhere in the case, rather than the kind of valuation judgment a jury is suited to make.