A method of acquiring or claiming title (ownership) to a piece of land owned by another by occupying it in defiance of the other’s title. Most jurisdictions have statutes that set out a certain period of time throughout which the person claiming adverse possession must occupy the land before title passes to that person by operation of law.
The acquisition of title to property through possession without the owner’s consent for a certain period of time.
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