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adverse possession
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adverse possession

In Anglo-American property law, holding of real property (see real and personal property) with the knowledge and against the will of one who has a superior ownership interest in it. Statutes of limitation in most U.S. states allow an adverse possessor to acquire legal title if the owner does not seek timely possession.



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The trio needs to rent space in the slot, or better yet, claim squatters' rights.
A line in Clive Barnes's page in the July issue really struck me: "It is curious that as we get older we seem to acquire squatters' rights on our memories.
truce observers at the time that "9 out of 10" of the incidents of Syrian shelling along the Israeli-Syrian border were prompted by incursions into the demilitarized zones of Israeli tractors that every year plowed deeper into the "no man's land" between the armies in an attempt to establish a kind of Israeli squatters' rights on land whose ownership had remained contested since the 1949 armistice agreement.
 
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