Is it illegal to “scavenge” from long abandoned homes?
In our legal system, there is always someone or something that owns a piece of property. While the property may look abandoned, it has an ascertainable owner. If no one has used the property and paid the taxes for long enough, the county or state may be the owner. Also, the property may seem abandoned, but it is not being used because of litigation, the owner is a minor or because it contains underground pollution. But, whoever it is, there is an owner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat Entering upon the property of someone else without permission is called “trespass.” “Trespass (Fr. trespas, a crime, properly a stepping across, from Lat. trans, across, and passus, step, cf. “transgression,” from transgredi, to step across) is a legal concept, which refers to intrusion into another person’s p
