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  2. Adverse possession - Wikipedia

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    Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.

  3. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    As a corollary to this exception, a landowner has superior claim over a find made within the non-public areas of his property, so if a customer finds lost property in the public area of a store, the customer has superior claim to the lost property over that of the store-owner, but if the customer finds the lost property in the non-public area ...

  4. Possession (law) - Wikipedia

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    In the same way, the passage of time can bring to an end the owner's right to recover exclusive possession of a property without losing the ownership of it, as when an adverse easement for use is granted by a court. In civil law countries, possession is not a right but a (legal) fact, which enjoys certain protection by the law.

  5. What happens if someone sells your property in America ... - AOL

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    Preventing property fraud is critical because once your property has been sold to a third party, you will no longer be the legal owner and it can take a long time and a lot of money to go to court ...

  6. Title (property) - Wikipedia

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    The right of possession is the legitimacy of possession (with or without actual possession), evidence for which is such that the law will uphold it unless a better claim is proven. The right of property is that right which, if all relevant facts are known (and allowed), defeats all other claims. Each of these may be in a different person.

  7. How scammers can sell your property to a third party without ...

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    For one thing, if the targeted property is vacant land, it can be months — or even years — before the real owner even discovers the fraud. Also, this type of scam is not a separate category in ...

  8. Recording (real estate) - Wikipedia

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    Each U.S. state has a recording act, a statute which dictates the legal procedure by which an individual claiming an interest in real property (real estate) formally establishes their claim to that property. The recordation of property rights becomes particularly significant where an unscrupulous dealer in land purports to sell the same tract ...

  9. Inverse condemnation - Wikipedia

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    Inverse condemnation is a legal concept and cause of action used by property owners when a governmental entity takes an action which damages or decreases the value of private property without obtaining ownership of the property through the use of eminent domain. Thus, unlike the typical eminent domain case, the property owner is the plaintiff ...