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Inverse condemnation is a legal concept and cause of action used by property owners when a governmental entity takes an action which damages or decreases the value of private property without obtaining ownership of the property through the use of eminent domain. Thus, unlike the typical eminent domain case, the property owner is the plaintiff ...
If a tenant tears down a house and builds a factory on property in an area in which residences have generally been replaced with industry, the tenant will not be liable for waste. In Melms v. Pabst Brewing Co., 79 N.W. 738 (Wis. 1899), the Pabst Brewing Company's plant encroached on a residential home. The owner of the home wanted to convert ...
The general rule is that the first person to "capture" such a resource owns that resource. For example, landowners who extract or “capture” groundwater, oil, or gas from a well that bottoms within the subsurface of their land acquire absolute ownership of the substance even if it is drained from the subsurface of another’s land. [2]
It reportedly took nearly seven years of negotiation and litigation for Attorney Henry Lung of Minneola, N.Y., to win a property damage arbitration award of $99,500 for his clients, who had a ...
Shopkeeper's privilege is a law recognized in the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property.
The Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act was created to provide a model set of laws to govern condominium, cooperative, homeowner association and planned unit development communities in the United States. Variations of the act have been adopted in Colorado, Washington (state), and some other states.
If your property is damaged by a fallen tree, whether it originated from your property or a neighbor’s, your first move should be to contact your homeowners insurance company. From there, your ...
The owners of a Colorado funeral home have pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy after police found 190 decaying bodies in a building ... the owners collected more than $130,000 for funerals and ...