adverse possession
noun1
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.
- Adverse possession was a legal maneuver straight out of the Sovereign Citizen canon.2019, Anthony McCann, Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
- Synonyms
- usucaption, usucapion, prescription
- Derived terms
- adversely possess
- Related terms
- possession is nine-tenths of the law, squatter's rights