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

Example Sentences

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

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

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It is not wonderful that property began in adverse possession.

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

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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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