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What happens if you cross the no trespassing sign?
by atomical 9y ago
What happens if you cross the no trespassing sign?
- tomcam 9y agoNothing. It has no legal basis.
- maxxxxx 9y agoIn Malibu there is a similar situation and I have seen private security guards harass people who walked to the beach. You have to have good nerves and be 100% sure of the legality to ignore them.
- mindslight 9y agoGiven the general ambiguity of the law, there really needs to be some penalty for those who knowingly push an incorrect interpretation as a spectre to intimidate/deprive others of their rights. Off the top of my head, it seems that it is at least fraud and an inappropriate giving of legal advice. But obviously an explicit statute to curb the practice would be better.
- spacemanmatt 9y agoWell, for starters, if they raise their voice or a limb at you, you can have them done for assault. If they actually detain you, it's false imprisonment aka kidnapping.
- mindslight 9y agoExcept, if it turns out that there is actually not an easement, then the same applies to you. Pretty high stakes for a question that likely can only be decided by all parties doing the research to become fully informed, presenting arguments to a court, and then waiting for deliberation. Due to the way the legal system works, much of this ambiguity is unavoidable, so the reasonable thing to do is to not escalate the situation physically. But then this creates an incentive for one party to act in bad faith and misinform the others, so that they can benefit in the meantime or even discourage the question from being investigated.