Adverse possession
the open and exclusive occupation and use of someone else’s real property without permission of the owner continuously for a period of years prescribed by law, thereafter giving t-tle to the occupier-user.
historical examples
the doctrine of “adverse possession” is founded on the anxiety of our law to secure quietude of t-tle.
ten thousand a-year (vol. 2) samuel warren
it is not wonderful that property began in adverse possession.
ancient law sir henry james sumner maine
a far longer period than the present one was requisite to const-tute “adverse possession” at the time mentioned in the text.
ten thousand a-year (vol. 2) samuel warren
the civil statutes also give moral validity to the t-tle of prescription, or adverse possession.
distributive justice john a. (john augustine) ryan
he found him in adverse possession of his property and with a gun raised ready to shoot.
silver and gold dane coolidge
but truth has a right of way everywhere, and will recover it at last, spite of the adverse possession of a political party.
speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons, volume 1 (of 3) theodore parker
noun
(property law) the occupation or possession of land by a person not legally ent-tled to it. if continued unopposed for a period specifed by law, such occupation extinguishes the t-tle of the rightful owner
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