Wolford v. Lopez · ¶43
At common law, opening up private property to the general public implies a “license to all persons to enter,” meaning that “no person is a trespasser by merely entering therein” unless the property owner has given “due notice” that such a person is banned. Commonwealth v. Power, 48 Mass. 596, 602 (1844); see also, e.g., State v. Steele, 106 N. C. 766, 780–783, 11 S. E. 478, 484–485 (1890); Barney v. Oyster Bay & Huntington Steamboat Co., 67 N. Y. 301, 302– 303 (1876); Jencks v. Coleman, 13 F. Cas. 442, 443–444 (No. 7,258), (CC RI 1835) (Story, J.).Read in context ›
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