adverse possession

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adverse possession (countable and uncountable, plural adverse possessions)

  1. (law) A means of acquiring title to another's real property without compensation by occupying the property in a manner that has under common law the requirements of being actual, open and notorious, exclusive, hostile, under cover of claim or right, and continuous for a certain number of years.
    • 2019, Anthony McCann, Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
      Adverse possession was a legal maneuver straight out of the Sovereign Citizen canon.

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