Landowner's Efforts to Void and Redraw Subdivision Map Fails Under Laches Doctrine | Miller Starr Regalia
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The often invoked but rarely successful laches doctrine is an equitable defense when a party unreasonably delays enforcing a right and when granting the relief sought would prejudice the adverse party. A petition for “exclusion” is an equitable process under California’s Subdivision Map Act, to compel a local agency to redraw or discard a recorded subdivision map, and it is even rarer. These issues recently collided in Dece...
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