![]() This article shall briefly survey the basic issues and rights that concern adjoining landowners, concentrating on the usual state law. The balancing of the reasonable use of property with the right of adjoining owners to reasonably use their own property forms the underlying tension in this area of the law. Further, almost all the states have common themes in their laws as to the rights and obligations of adjoining landowners, most deriving from English common law, and all sharing a basic understanding as to the underlying right of the landowner to enjoy use of the property - within certain “reasonable” limits. Most statutes and case law as to real property are based on state law, but federal law as to hazardous wastes, protection of the environment and various non-discriminatory accommodation requirements can also be imposed. This simple fact has led to a thousand years of common law followed by statutory law as to the rights and obligations of property owners whose lands abut. The same can be said for real property: “No land exists in isolation.” If one owns land, one must deal with all the people that surround the land and who own land that gives access to one’s land. “No Man Is an Island” is a well known saying that seems to advance the thought that all persons are connected to each other by common goals and obligations.
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