Maryland has no spite-fence statute, so a fence built maliciously to injure a neighbor is challenged in Harford County as a common-law private nuisance. Boundary-fence cost sharing is voluntary; no law forces a neighbor to split the cost.
A shared boundary fence between two Harford County properties is a private matter. Maryland has no statute compelling a neighbor to pay half of a division fence, so any cost split happens by voluntary written agreement, and a survey should fix the true property line before building. Maryland also has no dedicated spite-fence statute; instead, a fence erected with no legitimate purpose beyond annoying or injuring an adjoining owner is actionable as a common-law private nuisance. A court weighs the harm to the neighbor against any value of the structure and can order an offending fence removed. Encroachment disputes are resolved in Circuit Court.
An encroaching fence is a civil trespass a court can order removed. A malicious fence serving no purpose but to injure a neighbor is a private nuisance the adjoining owner can sue to enjoin.
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