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From: rbl@nitrex.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.misc
Subject: Re: patents
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Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 11:46:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 11:46:01 1987
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Reply-To: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
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In article <4862@pbhya.UUCP> ba@pbhya.UUCP (Behzad Alavi) writes:
>In article <849@uhccux.UUCP> cs313s19@uhccux.UUCP (Cs313s19) writes:
> ...
>       An example (although admittedly a crude one) may help clarify
>       the point:
>
>           If you build a structure on a land that you *THINK* is yours, 
>           in all honesty, and another person happens to have the
>           title, legal papers, etc. to that land, then who do
>           you think *OWNS* the structure that you innocently 
>           built on somebody else's land?
>
>           If your answer is the "legal owner" of the land, you
>           are right!  The law is very clear about that.  The only 
>           exception is homesteading, in which case you could have
>           owned the land and the building when certain conditions are 
>           met.

There is the concept of "flagrant and adverse possession" in which you can
claim the land after 20 years of being on it in a flagrant manner without
being asked to leave by the owner.

I'm certainly NOT an attorney, but sat in on one day of Law School and
enjoy this opportunity (and that of the Bork hearings) to preach what
I can not practice. :-)

I might even be wrong!
-- 
Rob Lake
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