An Australian family was forced to prepare for an auction after discovering that a narrow strip of land beside their rural property was not legally theirs, despite generations treating it as part of the farm. The land in Charleys Forest, near Braidwood in New South Wales, had remained registered to a man who died about 65 years earlier. When unpaid council rates finally brought the forgotten parcel to light, the family faced the unusual prospect of bidding to secure land they had long assumed belonged to them, according to ABC News.
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