Property is theft???  Why is this?
465763
because it is left of land? im not sure what your asking sweetie... ignore Mickey he is a first class prick
1125014
Hee, hee... Hope you're still laughing when they haul your vandalising ass off! Of course it is still considered vandalism... you are breaking/damaging property that isn't yours. \n\nOnce again, this falls into the category "If you have to ask...."
777086
It doesn't sound like the owner should have. But you don't know exactly what was in the lease either. Those leases can have all kinds of loopholes in them. Then again, the owner might have thought no one would ask for it back.
1078162
It is a form of theft anytime the government takes money and gives it to another when public safety isn't involved.  So Yes it is wrong
1091658
Don't you think if it is protected you shouldn't be doing it? Did you know that Piracy is stealing???
72363
I think you are talking about adverse possession.\n\nIf no one discovers this, the laws are different in different states. Some states say that since you did not know it wasn't your property, you can be sued for encroachment. Others say that you have successfully occupied the property long enough that it is now yours.
365154
technically teh pennies are abandoned property so you would not be done for theft. however your karma quotient woudl be pretty low!
924931
It is still legal.It sound as though it's got a Deed Of Covenent on it,which does stoop you from building.This next bit will take some unravelling.You'll need a solicitors hellp,as you will need to find the original owner,and see if they will agree to remove the covenent.It may cost quite a bit of money.
883160
How would you know they are illegal?  Are you just making assumptions because they are different from you?  I live next door to some US citizens, and they are declining my property values, by having junk cars parked all over the place and weeds growing on their property.....What can I do?  Hope and pray they move and mind my own business and accept that some people are slobs....
714827
We already have it - people use stolen credit card numbers to order merchandise, there is identity theft, and scams.  Shoplifting from the convenience of your home!
1151301
The question (I assume there is a question in all that statement) I think makes a common false assumption about the law. The law does not require that the taking of another's property be done forcefully in order to be illegal. Trespass is illegal even if there are no signs or fences to keep a person off your property.\n\nThe simplest answer is -- yes it's illegal. The courts respect that an online network is property in a legal sense, and unauthorized use of another's network is covered by the law in both civil and even criminal matters.\n\nIn the one case (where your computer picks up a router that is not your own and accesses through it automatically) you are probably not breaking the law because there is no intent to steal or trespass. If, however, you try to access in an area where you know you don't have a router, and you don't have permission to use anyone else's, then you're probably still guilty of the trespass.\n\nHowever, yes, in general you're breaking the law in some ways, just as much as you would be breaking the law to use your neighbor's hose to water your lawn. The fact that the hose is lying out by his house doesn't change the fact that you used someone else's property as your own without his permission. In order to be "public" property, it has to be designated as such or owned by the government (who even then is under no duty to call it public property either). \n\nYou may not be very likely to get caught for mooching off someone else's connection, but it's still illegal.
101095
anytime you take something that isn't yours or take something that you didn't pay for well then thats stealing no matter what the unusual circumstances are.  just because someone else broke the glass and started the robbery, you are still a accomplice cause you jumped in and took part.  it's called an accessory .....charged with possession of stolen property or maybe recieving stolen property.  any way you look at it...it would be smarter for you not to get involved with things of this nature.  try making better choices,  your future depends on it.  GOOD LUCK!
177810
theft.\n dishonestly appropriate, property belonging to another,with the intention of permenantly depriving the other of such property.
936068
Yes, it's called "receiving stolen property."
1156984
An unfortunate fact of the " Zero Tolerance" policy that allowed seizure of property obtained by illegal means, is that MUCH of the property winds up MISSING!!\n\nWhether it is the POLICE who are 'spiriting it away', or simply terrible bureaucratic recordkeeping is unclear, but the fact still remains that the missing property does not end up fattening the public coffers through public auction as it should.
196360
Because it's my stuff, not yours!
1067578
There are those who believe property is as important as crimes to the person.  Personally, I believe that property is just that--property.  It can be replaced or is inanimate and cannot be hurt.  Crimes against humanity affect quality of life from physical to mental injury.  That is intolerable.