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Using the Internet, locate your state's statute on adverse possession. After reading through the statute, write a brief 1-2 paragraph summary on what is required under your state's law for a person to obtain ownership to real property by adverse possession.
Specifically, address the following points in your summary:
- What is the prescribed time for wrongful possession?
- Is it required that wrongful possession be open, visible, and notorious or does your state law use other language? If so, what is it?
- Is it required that the wrongful possession be actual meaning the property is being used the way the landowner would reasonably use it and the landowner is excluded from physical possession of the land?
- Is there a requirement of continuous and peaceful wrongful possession?
- Must the wrongful possession be hostile and adverse and without the express or implied permission of the rightful owner?
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Introduction
The term adverse possession is referred as the legal doctrine which allows an individual
to claim a property in the land that is eventually in the possession by another person (Johnson,
2016). By favoring the adverse possession over the rightful landowner, the concept of adverse
possession significantly punishes landowners who sleep on their rights at the expense of
rewarding of productive use of land.
Content
Section 321 under California codes of civil procedure states that, in every action for the
possession or the recovery of the real property thereof, the person who establishes a legal title to
the property is much more presumed to have been possessed thereof within the time frame
required by law, and the occupation of the property by another person is deemed to have been
under and in subordinati...
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