Chris Lewis wrote:
Matthew Sullivan wrote:
If you let someone cross your land without impeding them, for a specific
period of time (20 years IIRC), after that period you cannot legally
stop them. If they have removed anything you set to impede them (eg a
fence) they can be taken to court for trespass.
It has to be continuous unfettered access, and the period is different
from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Here I think it's 10 years. It's
been applied (successfully) in "walkers versus the mall" cases.
Every year the Nortel Ottawa Campus is "gated" (security stands at the
road access and "controls access") for a day to break continuity - we
have ponds that outsiders visit to watch the geese... ;-)
My home town a gate with 'private property do not enter' whether open or
closed whether persons stopped in any other way or not, is sufficient to
"impede" them.
/ Mat
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