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TIL that neighbor's legal advice about easements was completely backward
My neighbor Bob told me I had to let him drive across my back yard because he had a 'prescriptive easement' from the previous owner. Said he'd been doing it for 12 years and the law was on his side. I paid a real estate lawyer $300 to check it out, and turns out Bob was dead wrong - you need continuous use without permission for 20 years in my state. So I put up a fence last weekend. Has anyone else had a neighbor try to use legal terms they didn't understand?
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hugow301mo ago
Funny how people throw around legal terms they heard somewhere once. I had a guy tell me I couldn't trim his tree branches hanging over my roof because it was "trespassing against nature" or something like that. The arborist just laughed and cut them anyway.
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lewis.drew1mo ago
Yeah, "trespassing against nature" is a new one on me. Pretty sure trees don't have lawyers.
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