19 Va. Envtl. Riparian rights and the shoreline. Kalo allows for the possibility that North Carolina may recognize a public interest in using dry sand areas for recreation, even when the land appears to be in private ownership. He notes that establishing the boundaries between publicly owned wet sand areas and privately owned dry sand areas is a separate, complex issue. Tree ordinances as takings.
Many local ordinances require developers to protect and preserve trees where practicable.
Ruthmarie Shea suggests that such ordinances may result in compensable regulatory takings to the extent that they appear to assume that trees are public property instead of landowners' private property. Tax liens and tenancies by the entireties . Johnson concludes the Court held that attachment of federal tax liens is a matter of federal law, unaffected by whether state law would allow an entireties owner to alienate his or her interest in the property without a spouse's consent. The acts recognize an evidentiary privilege regarding information developed in a voluntary self- evaluation of environmental problems. Connecticut joint tenants may have unequal shares, contrary to the common law requirement of unity of interest.