David Todd and Caroline Hodge bought their £1.2 million home in East Sussex with a countryside setting and a secure fence that was important because they owned two Labradors. Years later, however, that same fence became the centre of a dispute with their new neighbours. The disagreement focused on about half an acre of land that Todd and Hodge believed was part of their garden. Their neighbours argued that the land belonged to them, based on the legal boundary recorded for the property.
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