11-16-2008, 10:44 AM
wrong indeed ... if offered take. If no offered, don't take.
I know you didn't ask about the law, but I learned something interesting (years ago) from a book on neighbor law, which is that while you have a right to trim a neighbor's tree that hangs over into your yard, you do not have a right to harvest the fruit on your side.
The fruit belongs to the owner of the tree, no matter where the tree wanders ...
so all the oranges are yours, technically.
My neighbor has an avocado tree growing a little bit on my side, and unfortunately he takes a strict interpretation and picks all of them, so none for me. Then he might share with me, but the point is they're not mine because they grew on my side. [
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I know you didn't ask about the law, but I learned something interesting (years ago) from a book on neighbor law, which is that while you have a right to trim a neighbor's tree that hangs over into your yard, you do not have a right to harvest the fruit on your side.
The fruit belongs to the owner of the tree, no matter where the tree wanders ...
so all the oranges are yours, technically.
My neighbor has an avocado tree growing a little bit on my side, and unfortunately he takes a strict interpretation and picks all of them, so none for me. Then he might share with me, but the point is they're not mine because they grew on my side. [
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