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Adverse possession
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inversecondemnation.com
No, You Can’t Adversely Possess Someone’s Identity
So here's the story. A long time ago, one Walter Glenn Primrose stole the identity of a deceased child named Bobby Fort. The usual thing: Primrose got himself into some…
Legal Bites
Mere Long Possession Cannot Establish Adverse Possession: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has reiterated an important principle governing property disputes: mere long or uninterrupted possession of immovable property does not, by itself, mature into ownership by adverse possession. For…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Keeping the grass short is not enough: The Supreme Court refines adverse possession in NC Enterprises
By Terry Posey
Adverse possession is a doctrine that every lawyer encounters early in their first-year law school property class—the classic “squatter’s rights” analysis involving “open, notorious, exclusive and hostile” possession. Despite its…
Law Web
Supreme Court: Appellants can not rely upon the additional evidence at the appellate stage in the absence of foundational pleadings in plaint
By Law Web
11.11. Further, even at the stage of the earlier suit instituted by the predecessors-in-interest of the Appellant-Plaintiffs, their consistent case was one of lawful title to the suit property. No…
India Corporate Law
Supreme Court’s Landmark Ruling: A Tenant Can Never Become an Owner based on Adverse Possession
By Harsha Sudhindra, Solomon Sone
Summary: This blog explains a landmark Supreme Court ruling in Jyoti Sharma vs. Vishnu Goyal, clarifying that tenants can never become property owners through long occupation. It highlights how the…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
Molloy v Beehag [2025] NSWSC 1462 Navigating Adverse Possession and Title Conversion
Adverse Possession under the Old System Title in NSW Land granted or alienated from the Crown before 1 January 1863 in New South Wales is under Common Law. This is…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
Possession, Permission, and Prevarication: A Cautionary Case on Adverse Possession in NSW
Adverse possession allows a person who occupies land without the owner’s permission to gain legal title following a specified statutory period. The doctrine rests on the notion that the occupier…
Legal Profession Blog
Adverse Possession
The New York Court of Appeals has held that adverse possession defeated an estate claimDorothy Golobe died in 1992. Her estate included a three-story building at 265 West 30th St,…
The Faculty Lounge
Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis – Marc L. Roark & Lorna Fox O’Mahony
Property theory is at a crossroads. As we posted in our last post, the twenty-first century’s property problems are embedded in the effects of globalization, technological and environmental change. In…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
SCC to hear civil appeals on securities law, adverse possession, and insurance in winter session
The high court will consider 22 cases in total