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Are there any legal presumptions about ownership of walls depending on which side of the wall the buttresses are situated?

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If a wall has a buttress, then it will be part of the structure forming the wall. The presumption would be that the wall was erected by the owner of the land upon which the buttress stands, so that the outer face on the far side of the wall is the legal boundary. This is because a buttress is a substantial structure and the most

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