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From: "Gordon L. Richard" <>
Subject: Re: Visting Old Family Cemeteries
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 14:49:07 -0500


The meter reader is not trespassing because someone signed a
contract at the time service was activated. This contract
provides for reasonable, uninhibited access to the meter, even if
it is in your garage or basement.

As far as trespassing onto a private burial ground is concerned,
it would depend upon the state and local laws, as well as upon
whether or not the burial plots were deeded, and thus separated
from the surrounding real estate. In most states, the holder of a
deeded piece of property has rights of access. Again, state and
local laws prevail.

The issue in most cases would reduce to whether or not the deed
had been probated, and thereby passed on down to surviving heirs.
In most cases burial plots, although deeded are not included in
estate probate and therefore have not become the property of the
heirs.

Gordon Richard

OnSat, 12 Aug 2000 00:28:31 -0400, from
>Elaine Gallant wrote:
>>
>> Trespassing means being somewhere without a good reason for being there. <...>
>
>No, it doesn't. As far as a burglar is concerned, he has a
>"good reason" for going through your bureau drawers. "Good
>reason" is in the eyes of the beholder.
>
>The meter reader is not trespassing, because it is legal for
>him to come into your property, not because he has a "good
>reason."
>
>If the land your ancestors are buried on belongs to someone
>other than you, you are tresspassing there if you don't have
>their permission to be there.
>
>\\P. Schultz

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