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{{trope}}
This has been done once by every [[Sitcom]] and sitcom-like cartoon since 1952.
One of a pair of rival neighbors discovers on the city map describing their property that it extends into said rival's. They will begin commandeering anything of the neighbor's that falls into their property. Their tree, workshed, the TV in the their living room, etc.
The episode frequently ends with the rival neighbor discovering that the first read it wrong, and what it ''really'' meant was that the property line cuts into the first's property instead. Insert [[Losing Horns|defeated "wah-wah-waaaah" trombone sounds]] here.
This is usually [[Snap Back|Snapbacked]] as it never comes up again.
See also [[This Is My Side]], which is the same plot in miniature. Compare and contrast with [[Foreigner for a Day]].
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== Comic Books ==
* There was once an issue of ''Disney Magazine'' that had this happen to [[Donald Duck]]. He finds a bricked-up doorway in his cellar, behind which is a chest of valuable antique coins. He sells them, and goes on a spending spree, only to have his neighbour come by with a map proving that anything behind the bricked-up door is actually on ''his'' property. All of Donald's fancy new furniture is repossessed, and immediately re-purchased by the neighbour, so Donald has to make do with some old chairs found in the main part of the cellar. {{spoiler|Turns out the chairs are even more valuable than the coins were.}}
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* ''[[Sanford and Son]]''
* ''[[Married... with Children]]''
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'' - happened exactly like the trope's definition, starting with Bob taking things from Red's garage and ending with Red finding out that he owns part of Bob's house.
* Nickelodeon once had a special ''[[Maniac Magee]]'' about a town where white people stayed on one side of a boundary, black people on the other, and yet both sides still were able to run their town in a capable manner, (The duality would be resolved by the Fastest? Kid in the World, can't recall how.)
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