Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: jwb@csse.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: shop Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <1132458163.136248.228250@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1h6cbf7.6vogxgvp4nb4N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <1h6ckxw.9nmudm1jrm8aoN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.18-27.7.x (i686)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:03:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.21.83 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1132524209 138.217.21.83 (Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:03:29 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:03:29 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:30498 Paul Blay dixit: >Aha. Over here in good old イギリス (however you define it) >I think there's some rule that if your boundary has been at a certain >point for a long enough period of time unchallenged whoever might be >said to own that land on paper doesn't get to get it back.* Here it's called "adverse possession". You have to have been squatting unchallenged for at least 15 years, after which the owner can't sue to get it back. It's a bit more complicated to get title to the land. It's no longer part of Common Law here, as it's covered by special legislation which encodes what was previously Common Law. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学