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- Subject: HELP REQUEST: opening the car of another person
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 07:05:58 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- I manage a small apartment building to be able to live without paying rent.
- We recently caught the boyfriend of one of the tenants opening the hood of
- a vehicle which belongs to a third tenant. Although he claimed to just
- having been taking a look at the old V-8 engine, this type of behavior
- makes our tenants very uncomfortable. Much more when recently in this
- same garage during the night somebody broke the window of a car to steal
- a CD player.
-
- Can anybody help me with the following legal questions:
-
- 1) Opening the hood of a vehicle of another person, without
- permission in a private garage is probably a crime.
- I believe so. But what is its name? It is not theft since
- he does not seem to have attempted to remove anything.
- Is it some kind of trespassing (quare clausum fregit)?
-
- 2) Since parking is a different contract, not included with the
- rental of the apartment, would it be possible to cancel
- the parking privileges of this tenant? After all it is
- her boyfriend who uses the garage most of the time, using
- a key which she gave him.
- Or would it be possible to ban him from the garage?
-
- Any answers or ideas will be greatly appreciated.
-
- Joan
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