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Perhaps the first owner of your house granted your neighbor access to a dock on your property in perpetuity, or the city has retained an easement to access power lines that run across the back ...
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 ...
Open fields near Lisbon, Ohio.. The open-fields doctrine (also open-field doctrine or open-fields rule), in the U.S. law of criminal procedure, is the legal doctrine that a "warrantless search of the area outside a property owner's curtilage" does not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The attractive nuisance doctrine emerged from case law in England, starting with Lynch v. Nurdin in 1841. In that case, an opinion by Lord Chief Justice Thomas Denman held that the owner of a cart left unattended on the street could be held liable for injuries to a child who climbed onto the cart and fell. [3]
The “homestead exemption” probably won’t change things for Jackson County homeowners facing steep tax assessment increases in 2023. Missouri could freeze seniors’ property tax values. But ...
But if a county chose not to, citizens can use a ballot measure to put the question of freezing property taxes for seniors before the voters. ... which capped the appraisal value of a home ...
In some cases, a squatter may be able to obtain ownership of property through adverse possession. Various community groups have used squatting as a tactic both to call for improved housing and to house the homeless. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) made a national campaign in 1979.
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 ...