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Section 18-3-20 – Acquisition; Width.

Section 18-3-20 Acquisition; width. Where a cemetery or graveyard has been used by the public as a place for burying the dead for 20 years or more and no part of said cemetery or graveyard is adjacent or contiguous to any public road or highway, any person who has, or any persons who have, relatives […]

Section 18-3-21 – Right-of-Way Through Yard, Garden, Orchard, etc.; Payment of Compensation and Damages for Right-of-Way.

Section 18-3-21 Right-of-way through yard, garden, orchard, etc.; payment of compensation and damages for right-of-way. In the establishment and condemnation of such right-of-way, no road or right-of-way shall be established through any person’s yard, garden, orchard, stable lot, stable, gin house or curtilage without the consent of the owner; and the applicant must pay the […]

Section 18-2-11 – Persons Permitted to Contest Application.

Section 18-2-11 Persons permitted to contest application. In all applications under this chapter, any person making affidavit that he is interested against the same and giving security for the costs, if he fails to defeat such application, must, at any time before such application is granted, be permitted to make himself a party and to […]

Section 18-2-12 – Denial or Grant of Application.

Section 18-2-12 Denial or grant of application. If on the day appointed to show cause, or any other day to which the matter may be continued, it appears to the court from the inquest or from evidence introduced that the residence of any owner, or the outhouses, inclosures, garden or orchard immediately belonging thereto, will […]

Section 18-2-15 – Effect of Noncompliance With Conditions.

Section 18-2-15 Effect of noncompliance with conditions. On failure to comply with the conditions prescribed in Section 18-2-14, the land reverts to its former owner or his heirs. (Code 1852, §2106; Code 1867, §2498; Code 1876, §3572; Code 1886, §3198; Code 1896, §1741; Code 1907, §3902; Code 1923, §7521; Code 1940, T. 19, §47.)