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  2. Who Pays When Neighbor's Fire Spreads to Your Home - AOL

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    In April, a retired Milltown, Mont., man lost his 100-year-old two-story home after a fire at a neighbor's house spread to his. He's pursuing an insurance payout from the neighbor's insurance. "I ...

  3. Property damage - Wikipedia

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    Law. v. t. Property damage (sometimes called damage to property ), is damage or destruction of real or tangible personal property, caused by negligence, willful destruction, or an act of nature. Destruction of property (sometimes called property destruction, or criminal damage in England and Wales) is a sub-type of property damage that involves ...

  4. Easement - Wikipedia

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    e. An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it. It is "best typified in the right of way which one landowner, A, may enjoy over the land of another, B". [1] An easement is a property right and type of incorporeal property in itself at common law in most jurisdictions.

  5. Party wall - Wikipedia

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    Party wall. A party wall (occasionally parti-wall or parting wall, shared wall, also known as common wall or as a demising wall) is a wall shared by two adjoining properties. [1] Typically, the builder lays the wall along a property line dividing two terraced houses, so that one half of the wall's thickness lies on each side.

  6. Neighbors helped family escape house fire started by ... - AOL

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    Brandon Hudson. July 5, 2024 at 8:02 PM. CHESTERFIELD TWP., Mich. (FOX 2) - Investigators say fireworks are suspected in a devastating house fire in Cheserfield Township. It was a total loss, but ...

  7. Neighborhoods get little guidance about toxic risks after ...

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    Some neighbors, worried the fire would reach their homes, used garden hoses to soak their roofs. Others packed up their cars and left. Many assumed the fire's impacts would be short-lived.

  8. Firewall (construction) - Wikipedia

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    Firewall residential construction, separating the building into two separate residential units, and fire areas Example of a firewall used to inhibit the spread of a fire at an electrical substation. A firewall is a fire-resistant barrier used to prevent the spread of fire. Firewalls are built between or through buildings, structures, or ...

  9. How to deal with neighbors that encroach on your property - AOL

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    An easement is a right of access that has been agreed-upon by the property owner, in writing, or mandated by a government decision. Perhaps the first owner of your house granted your neighbor ...