Category: Property Rights
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People Can Walk (and Sit) on Your Beachfront Property. Tell Buyers, Rhode Island’s New Law Says.
The owners of Rhode Island’s beachfront homes would like to own the beach — all the way out to the water. But last June, Rhode Island law created a public right to access areas of passable shore up to ten feet above the visible high tide line — the line where you can see the…
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All I Deed is the Air I Breath
(With apologies to the Hollies) How far do one’s private property rights extend? For most property owners, the common understanding of property rights is limited to what they can find written on their deed. Deeds, or the documents evidencing title to real estate, describe real property by its boundaries, along with the rights and privileges…
