California · Civil Code
CIV §810: The owner in fee of a servient tenement may maintain an action for the possession of the land, against any one unlawfully possessed thereof, though a servitude exists thereon in favor of the public.
What this law says, in plain English
A property owner may sue to recover possession of land from someone unlawfully occupying it, even if the property has a public servitude (right of way) on it.
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