adverse possession

Adverse possession is a common law concept developed in the 1800s.

These rare cases should not lead to the whole law on adverse possession being changed.

At the same time some systems permit adverse possession while others do not.

See the guidance note on adverse possession for more information.

You should be concerned about a concept called "adverse possession."

Adverse possession is not new to English law, although the normal period used to be much longer than twelve years.

It is often referred to in the context of adverse possession and other land law issues.

Adverse possession does not typically work against property owned by the public.

Now, the hurdles to prove adverse possession are very high.

Adverse possession is a stretch, however, and I would use that legal argument only as a last effort.

I now turn to the defence of adverse possession.

I have already accepted that the court should be slow to make a finding of adverse possession in a case such as the present.

Strictly speaking, prescription works in a different way to adverse possession.

Certainly, Y cannot be said to have acquired a title by adverse possession.

Any third party would have taken title to the lands clear of his claim for adverse possession.

For example, squatter's rights are a specific form of adverse possession.

There was no requirement for a defendant to show any form of adverse possession.

Some of these people are using tactics like adverse possession to take over vacant homes.

Before you get ideas about trying to use adverse possession, consider that the sheriff forced him out of this house.

And lately the courts have been cutting down the period of adverse possession.

Under the law, claims of adverse possession can be made if an individual uses someone else’s property continuously for 10 years.

Among other things, the owner has to have let the adverse possession go unchallenged for 10 years.

Following upon a report, the cure recommended and adopted was adverse possession.

Proprietary rights arising from adverse possession are no less important.

A system of land registration is defeated if title can change hands by adverse possession.