2” today, and sometime in the future they will break that wall down and put up a new one, 2 more inches into the property line.
And if they are allowed to do it, the law will recognize that no one complained, so it is now theirs.
I have seen the exact same situation played out in Texas and in Bosnia. A group will mistakenly put up the line an inch or two over the line, then claim it was theirs since the owner did not object. After a while that can add up to many square feet of land changing hands, especially if the groups stay around the property for a long time.
One of the reasons why the Bible inveighs against moving the old landmarks.
Yep. Its called adverse possession I think. AR law is pretty land owner friendly as the person has to pay the other persons taxes for 7 years in order to legally obtain land in that manner.
You are exactly right. A guy built a MONSTROUS house on an empty lot in our neighborhood a few years ago. Next door is a gorgeous, well landscaped modest house on one acre plot. The owner of the next door house was away for a few months and the jerk who built the big house had driveway concrete forms put down over TEN FEET of his neighbor’s property. Luckily, another neighbor alerted the woman about the impending concrete pour and she got it stopped.
The bastard was going to just blatantly steal her land.