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Molly’s Apartment
morriswalters:
It appears to be a condo. You own a condo, but your co-owners can enter your property given cause. A fire would be cause. In terms of the threshold, the same principle applies that applied to Harry's apartment.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Yes, but it’s a bachelorette apartment so some threshold but fairly weak. That’s why Harry did the security upgrade, it needed it even more than his old bachelor apartment needed the steel door.
Having Maggie stay over would have improved the threshold a tint bit.
Basil:
Let my put my lawyer hat on for this debate:
You can own a "fee simple" meaning that you can do pretty much whatever you want subject to the laws of your nation/state/county/city. But, that last point is important. I own a fee simple, but I can't say ... build a Chernobyl style fission plant on the property. Perhaps the Svartelves make a "law" (or really think a law) no guests who are wizards over 6 feet 6 inches in height -- Harry actually resembles Chernobyl in many ways.
But, you can also own property that have strings attached -- easements. The most common ones that you see in the US are utility easements. Meaning, the gas/telephone/electric/cable company can enter onto your property to their thing. Home Owner Associations area also a type of easement. But, you can have others such as if your property blocks egress/entry for another property.
There are other lesser forms of ownership too, for example a "Life Estate," which is actually the most likely scenario for Molly. Life Estate works exactly how you expect -- it's your property and you can do whatever you want with it -- except transfer it to anyone -- until your death.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Life estate is a continental concept not found in UK or Swedishlaw, my guess the Swartalves thought that Molly would only have a Wizards lifespan and the remainder of the lease would not be taken up. Now Molly will very likely live the entirety of a 999 year lease, the jokes on them.
SerScot:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on November 16, 2021, 05:30:11 PM ---Life estate is a continental concept not found in UK or Swedishlaw, my guess the Swartalves thought that Molly would only have a Wizards lifespan and the remainder of the lease would not be taken up. Now Molly will very likely live the entirety of a 999 year lease, the jokes on them.
--- End quote ---
There is never a “lease” mentioned anywhere in the Text. The Text’s only statement is Molly saying the apartment is “hers” that she “owns” it. Until otherwise stated that means there is no landlord tenant relationship here. That the Svartalves actually transferred fee simple ownership to Molly. Perhaps there is an easement for ingress in cases of emergency but Molly’s apartment isn’t a leasehold until we are told otherwise.
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