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Occupation lines are deceptive (Don't believe your eyes)

June 16th, 2004 | Author: Ned Ferguson
Fences & Occupation lines

Fences & Occupation lines

Possession lines can be deceptive. ‘Possession lines’ refer to mowing, hedges, fences and

Actual Boundaries

Actual Boundaries

other signs of occupation habitually created by property owners over a period of time.

Shown is an actual survey from our file. Ironically, the name of the road is Sunny Lane. All is peaceful. There is a nicely manicured yard inside a chain link fence which surrounds the property (See Figure 1 left – clicking will enlarge). There are no apparent disputes.

The property owner orders a survey, the results of which are shown at right (Figure 2). All is not sunny on Sunny Lane. Note that the adjacent house to the south is almost wholly located on the subject lot.

Here is one more good reason to obtain a survey when buying property. Do not trust your eyes and remember - Title Insurance does not protect the buyer against defects that could have been found by obtaining an accurate survey.

Posted in Due Diligence, Fences, Survey Problems
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Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality—to think, to work and to keep the results—which means: the right of property. The modern mystics of muscle who offer you the fraudulent alternative of “human rights” versus “property rights,” as if one could exist without the other, are making a last, grotesque attempt to revive the doctrine of soul versus body. Only a ghost can exist without material property; only a slave can work with no right to the product of his effort. The doctrine that “human rights” are superior to “property rights” simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others; since the competent have nothing to gain from the incompetent, it means the right of the incompetent to own their betters and to use them as productive cattle. — Ayn Rand, Galt’s Speech

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