Re: Land access


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Posted by John Nichols on December 13, 2004 at 16:18:51 from 165.91.196.110 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Land access posted by Peter H on December 13, 2004 at 11:20:12:

The difficulty with people breaking the big rules is that we end up with a lot of small laws.

It is almost impossible to say that access across a place should be denied to all.

What about if I were a Doctor coming to your aid because of an emergency and I could rappel down a cliff or have to walk for kilometres around because the land owner said I could not use that route as he owned it. The police would I am sure tell the owner politely to go take a cold shower.

I once subdivided a block of land, that had a blot on the title. The large block had a right of way through a small block. When we subdivided the big block we forgot to extinguish the right of way. All 1000 lot owners have a perfect legal and enforcable right to walk through these people's property at any time of the day or night. Commonsense applies and no-one does that I am aware of, but it could be a nightmare if one of the owners did not like the small block owner and insisted on his right to walk through.

We all have to live in this world and we have to get on, so only in Texas would I not walk across someone elses land - here they shoot first and last and then call the cops.

There is the classic case (true story) of a woman who shot her husband as he climbed in the window because he had forgotten his keys. They call it in these parts a Texas divorce.

John
(but as always it is the arguments on this board that are fun.)


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