adverse possession

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adverse possession (countable and uncountable, plural adverse possessions)

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A is a squatter. In Year 1, A started residing on B’s private property without B’s permission. Suppose in that property’s jurisdiction, there is a 60-year limitation period, and there are no other laws prohibiting or limiting the application of adverse possession.

If A is caught from Year 1 to Year 60, he could be sued as a trespasser and evicted. But once the 60-year limitation period lapsed (i.e. from Year 61), B cannot commence action on A, and A become the lawful owner of B’s property.

  1. (law) A means of acquiring title to another's real property without compensation by occupying the property in a manner that has under common law the requirements of being actual, open and notorious, exclusive, hostile, under cover of claim or right, and continuous for a certain number of years.
    • 2019, Anthony McCann, Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff‎, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
      Adverse possession was a legal maneuver straight out of the Sovereign Citizen canon.

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