[Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP - "collateral damage"

[Matthew Sullivan]

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