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A caveat, however; make sure you know where your true property boundaries are. For example: the back edge of my property is fenced, and the fence has a four-foot jog where two abutting properties ...
The common law may apply many exceptions to the rule that the first finder of lost property has a superior claim of right over any other person except the previous owner. For example, a trespasser's claim to lost property which he finds while trespassing is generally inferior to the claim of the respective landowner. As a corollary to this ...
Individual rights must give way to the higher law of impending necessity. A house on fire or about to catch on fire is a public nuisance which is lawful to abate. Otherwise one stubborn person could destroy an entire city. If property is destroyed without an apparent necessity, the destroying person would be liable to the property owner for ...
Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971), is a court case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court, in which homeowners Edward and Bertha Briney were held liable for battery for injuries caused to trespasser Marvin Katko, who set off a spring gun set as a mantrap in an uninhabited house on their property. [1]
On-street parking can be a highly coveted commodity in some Kansas City neighborhoods. Here’s what Kansas and Missouri laws say about parking in front of another person’s home.
New York's squatter's rights laws have once again become the focus of public attention. Adele Andaloro inherited her family’s home in Flushing, Queens after her parents passed away.
In some regions of the world, a property owner may use reasonable (typically meaning non-deadly) force to prevent a person from trespassing on their land, or to expel a trespasser. [1] However, a property owner may be restricted from expelling a trespasser if doing so would expose the trespasser to a risk of serious injury.
A sign marking the location of the Jackson County Assessment Office’s property valuation review process is seen outside the south entrance to 1300 Washington in downtown Kansas City on Wednesday ...