[passionfruit]

“When she heard that Yeager was using something called “adverse possession” to claim ownership of t he wall and thereby move the property line dividing their properties roughly one foot in Krueger-Cunningham’s direction, she said, “I didn’t really understand what it was all about.” “

The lawyers and judges here are using little known laws to take land from honest citizens that don’t even know their land ownership is at risk.

The moral of this story is that if you have a lawyer or judge living next door, and you live in Boulder, either run the scum off, or move.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Actually adverse3 possession is a well known term among anyone in real estate. It basically means that if you can move in on someone's land and openly live there for a number of years without that person taking legal action to remove you, you can sue in court to just take the land. In this case her family "assumed" they owned the wall, trimmed the grass along the wall, and did all the things the owner should have been doing in maintenance of the wall. It ain't right, but it is the law.