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adverse possession

noun

, Law.
  1. 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 title to the occupier-user.


adverse possession

noun

  1. property law the occupation or possession of land by a person not legally entitled to it. If continued unopposed for a period specifed by law, such occupation extinguishes the title of the rightful owner
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He found him in adverse possession of his property and with a gun raised ready to shoot.

The civil statutes also give moral validity to the title of prescription, or adverse possession.

It is not wonderful that property began in adverse possession.

The doctrine of "adverse possession" is founded on the anxiety of our law to secure quietude of title.

A far longer period than the present one was requisite to constitute "adverse possession" at the time mentioned in the text.

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