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Adverse Possession (wikipedia.org)
3 points by jameslk on April 10, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Because poor people are forced to the margins and acquire marginal value land, poor people are also prone to high rates of adverse possession when marginal land becomes of interest for things like road widening, rail road, urban renewal and the like.

It's come up on cooking shows on TV: roadside sharecroppers finding title to their land is more theoretical than actual.

Value for repossession is complex. It's led to the phenomena of "nail houses" in China, stand out landholders who refuse to accept repossession.

In the digital domain early TLD delegates found their control of ccTLD subject to eminent domain by the state actor who follows on. Not unlike?


What you're describing sounds more like eminent domain (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain)

Adverse Posession (aka Prescriptive Easement) addresses access in modern contexts. If a person owns land, that does not abut a public right-of-way, must traverse the public-adjacent land (that they do not own) for a defined period of time w/out interference, the right to access their land by this way can only be disrupted by the owner of the public-adjacent land providing an alternative path at their own expense.

The person with the non-adjacent land can appeal to the courts for maintenance of existing access on this basis.




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