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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Adverse Possession
- Keywords: Sovereign
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.163204.24824@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:32:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.051447.22728@midway.uchicago.edu> <kaufman.724783182@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> <19486@smoke.brl.mil>
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- In article <19486@smoke.brl.mil> matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt) writes:
- >I've got a few questions for all those lawyers and law students
- >out there to look up:
- >
- >1) Does adverse possession run against the sovereign?
- >
- >2) Can one acquire an easement by prescription against the sovereign?
- >
- >3) In California, is a municipality considered to be "sovereign,"
- > as the State is?
-
- Oops. In general, no, no, and probably, though there are exceptions to
- the first two.
-
- Like I said, property was my worst subject (at least until I get my
- Secured Transactions exam back).
-
- I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.
- --
- ted frank | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu
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- the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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