On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:41:21 -0700, "Clark W. Griswold, Jr."
wrote:

Kristiansand99 wrote:

A friend tells us that there must be an area next to the outside wall
of a house that belongs to that house, then an area of no-man's land,
then the neighbour's property. If this is true it would prove the pots
have to be moved as they are on our own land. Please can you advise if
this is the case and whether the border between the houses at the back
would reasonably continue forward between the houses as we suspect. Our
neighbours seem to be telling us that the border curves around our house
and the chimney breast giving them the whole area between the houses.
Please advise.


Your friend is, shall we say, misinformed. Boundaries do not have to be logical,
in a straight line, follow the natural contours of the ground or anything else.
You need to look at the legal survey of your property.

True. And your friend is probably referring to the "setback," which
is an area along the property boundary on the inside that serves as an
invisible border on which to install fences and the like without
running into jurisdictional violations. Many locations require fences
or other structures to be installed no closer than 12 inches or some
similar distance from the true property boundary. But that's a
different matter than what you're talking about.