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fences in this manner on both sides of the road 

 at the same time. 



This method of improving the roadsides and 

 beautifying the country has usually met with such 

 favor, and often leads to such satisfactory results, 

 that it bids fair to be adopted in many parts of 

 the country. In most instances it requires only 

 a suggestion to the local representative to induce 

 the introduction of a bill in the state legislature 

 looking toward its adoption. 



IV. INCORRECT LINE FENCES MADE LEGAL BOUNDARY 

 BY LAPSE OF TIME 



A man may become the owner of real property 

 not his own originally, by what is known as ad- 

 verse possession of the same for the requisite 

 period. This is often decided where line fences 

 have been erroneously erected and after a lapse 

 of time the parties injured by the incorrect loca- 

 tion endeavor to correct the same. If a man 

 actually enclose the land, or part thereof, belong- 

 ing to another, and claim the land enclosed by 

 the fence as his own, and take actual possession 

 of it as such, for the required period— frequently 

 twenty years — and maintain open, adverse, noto- 

 rious and exclusive possession during that time, 

 his rights as owner of such land will become com- 

 plete. If, however, he erect the fence through 



