For example (I don't know if this is really ok or not, it's just an example):
Drinking and driving/DWI/etc.... If I am drunk and driving on a public road I can get into trouble with the law. However, if I paved my own private 100 acre lot, could I drink whiskey, get drunk, and drive all I wanted? What if another vehicle (not mine) came on to the private lot mistakenly, and I crashed into it because I was drunk? Would I be breaking and drinking while driving laws? What if it was a private subdivision instead of a 100 acre lot?
Can you name more?
2007-01-11 02:22:07 · 6 answers · asked by CJP 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It is a question of "jurisdiction". I was parked in a trailer park and a person without a drivers license drove into my car, and the policeman said "tough". He wouldn't even ask for the drivers license or proof of insurance of the man who hit me. (that was in New Jersey, many years ago). You have much more freedom on your own property. In General, under the Almighty's laws everything is legal, except for a few things that obviously insult the Almighty or damage other people. Under our present system, virtually everything is illegal, and you need to get a permit from the state to do it. Drive, get married (or divorced) work, leave the country carry a gun...etc. Many things that you need a permit to do in public you can do in private on your own land. Driving is a good example. Fixing your house... to work on another person's house you would need a license. (I don't really like the drunk driving example, because that is pretty foolish) Then you get into the "attractive nuisance" laws, and "implied consent" and you (hopefully) begin to realize that it has to do with control, not fairness of righteousness.
2007-01-11 02:43:57 · answer #1 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are laws that do apply on your own paid for land. I know if you own your own land, and there is a cemetery from the 1800's on there you can't touch that part of your land. Also if you find valuable artifacts on your land you have to report it. There is a law. The government has a right to imminent domain where they can come take your land anytime if they need it. You can't do an archeological dig on your own land. You have to report if you find an indian burial ground on your land. I don't know about laws that let you do things on your land, I know the can'ts. (If you are disturbing the peace of others even being on your own land, you are still disturbing the peace and can get into trouble.)
2007-01-11 10:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by JBWPLGCSE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can drink and drive on your own property. you also can hunt without license. drive with out license. drink all you want. as long as you hurt no one. i'm sure there ae more.
clarke. that is not completely true or else it is sometimes ignored. there were two serpent mounds in ohio. the one in warren county was mostly destroyed by the company that owns it. a gravel pit company. i can't find the link,but i will look. i also know of at least one house built on the site of an old graveyard,that didn't remove all the graves.
http://www.herper.com/Warrenmound.html
2007-01-11 10:35:48 · answer #3 · answered by J Q Public 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So long as your property isn't a place of public accomodation (a hotel, restaurant, apartment complex, etc.), feel free to violate all the civil rights laws you want. Discriminate against people based on race, refuse to let Scandanavians use your bathroom, go nuts. None of those laws apply.
2007-01-11 10:39:46 · answer #4 · answered by Loss Leader 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have thought nudity on your own land would be legal. That would be an interesting legal case actually if you could clearly be seen by your neighbours naked on you own land and there children for example!
2007-01-11 10:38:06 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speeding, Public Intoxication, homicide in some instances,
2007-01-11 10:26:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋