pixi wrote:

I need an answer but don't know where to look on the internet. Has anyone
got any ideas about this?

There is about 800 feet of fence between us and a neighbor. The neighbor
recently put up a new fence. When ever a tree had grown up on the lot line
he put the fence on our side thus putting the trees on his side of the
fence. In most cases this meant a foot or more of our property on his side
of the fence.

I believe the law used to say if the fence remained there for 20 years, the
land on his side was the neighbors.

This means that the neighbor took aboutg 800 square feet of land. That/'s a
lot of land. Does anyone know where I can find out what we can do about
this.


"The law" you are thinking of is called "adverse possession." There's
always a lot of misinformation floating around about adverse possession
and it's not as easy to lose land that way as people seem to think.

Repost on misc.legal and they will tell you more than you ever wanted to
know.

- Alex