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Our experienced team continuously handles a significant number of boundary and neighborhood cases spread throughout Denmark.
We have extensive expertise in neighborhood law. Neighborhood cases can sometimes be resolved over the counter, but sometimes legal assistance is required to resolve the dispute. Neighborhood cases can have a major impact on the daily lives of the parties involved, and it is therefore important to resolve them in an appropriate manner.
Attorney Søren V. Andreasen has worked with neighborhood law and boundary disputes throughout his career and is today one of Denmark's leading specialists in the field. You are very welcome to contact Soren for a discussion if you yourself are involved in a neighborly legal conflict or neighborly war.
The concept of claim dates back to ancient times and the rules in this area also date back to the Danish Law from 1683. So it is one of the oldest laws still in force in Denmark.
If someone has had goods and property in their hands and claimed it for twenty years unencumbered and unclaimed, they retain it without any other right to show, unrepentant and unclaimed, unless it is proven that they had it, either as a pledge or in a loan, or in defense.
This is what it says in Danish Law. Not exactly modern Danish. From the law, you can read that the following conditions must be met before you can win a claim.
When is it a fence within the meaning of the Fence Act?
The limit of tolerance in the law of neighbors is a broad concept that covers the fact that as an owner of a real estate property you do not have to put up with everything from your neighbors. The rules are based solely on case law, so there are no laws to rely on, but over the years the courts have taken a position on where the limit is in a wide range of cases, including:
There will always be a specific assessment of whether the tolerance limit under local law has been exceeded in a specific case. You are always welcome to contact us for a non-binding discussion about your specific situation.
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