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Originally Posted by BrianL99
I assume somewhere in your legal career, you've heard of "Zoning Laws" ?
Not to put to fine of a point on it, but when you buy property, what you are really buying is not the "dirt", you're buying a "Bundle of Rights".
Those rights are whatever rights the prior owner had and has agreed to sell you, along with the rights (& restrictions) endowed by other stake holders ... which include governments, local, state and federal. Unfortunately perhaps, but governments have the right to alter the rights you may or may not have purchased.
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?????? I would never buy dirt/bundle of rights, as you call it, without having everything clearly in writing. Here in the Villages, your rights are limited to the deed restrictions. When you sign in ink, you agree to these restrictions. Some argue the meaning/legality of certain sections, but if needed, you have the right to resolve it in court. The same goes for governing bodies. They cannot change a law or your rights without a legal cause to do so. What you have stated is a dictatorship. We abolished that thinking with a document that begins with these famous words:
We hold these truths to be self evident. That all men are created equal. That they are endowed by the creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....