🔤 Adverse Possession ✨

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🔊 Play Roman

qabza e mukhalifana, bina ijazat kisi ki zameen par lamaba qabza, haq e milkiyat ka daawa

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📚noun

adverse possession

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DEFINITION

principle of real estate law where non owner who openly occupies land gains legal title

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

The squatter claimed legal ownership of the abandoned lot through the doctrine of adverse possession. Property owners build fences along boundaries to prevent neighbors from making a claim of adverse possession. The lawyer explained that adverse possession requires continuous and open occupation of the land for years. After living on the remote land undisturbed for twenty years he filed for adverse possession. The legal dispute over adverse possession caused a prolonged court fight between the two neighboring families.

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squatter rights prescriptive title unauthorized occupancy hostile claim

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legal ownership rightful title permitted tenancy lawful possession