Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject:
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In my part of utah there is a strange law on the books. If a property line goes unchallenged for so many years, the fence line becomes the property line. So, in other words, if my fence was 20 feet inside my property, and it stayed that way for so many years (not sure how many), and the property line was never disputed or recognized, the neighbor actually could claim it was his property. Kind of like a "possession is nine-tenths of the law" kind of thing. It probably isn't like that everywhere, but here ...
In fact, Brigham Young University, a private university, closes all of it's campus streets once a year just so the county has to "recognize" that the streets are actually private property.