acquisitive prescription

gaining a right over land by passage of time. At common law a right could only be acquired prescriptively if use, enjoyment or benefit (user) as of right could be shown to have been enjoyed from ‘time immemorial’. For this purpose, the year 1189 was fixed as the limit of legal memory, so that any right enjoyed at that date was unchallengeable. In practice, however, it was impossible to demonstrate this, so by the middle of the 19th century 20 years’ uninterrupted use was sufficient to found a claim at common law (see also LOST MODERN GRANT). Most legal systems employ a similar concept. In current English law an owner may apply for registration in respect of registered land after 10 years ADVERSE POSSESSION. The same concept applies in international law.

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References in periodicals archive

(5) Article 2917, Civil Code of Quebec: "The period for acquisitive prescription is 10 years, except as otherwise determined by law".

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Even on the assumption that the non-registration of the donation propter nuptias rendered the document invalid, they still have acquired ownership over the land by virtue of acquisitive prescription having possessed the property continuously since they were born, or for more than 63 years.

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Property law researchers from Europe discuss general property law, including contractual fragmentation of property in Europe, French trusteesAE ownership, acquisitive prescription of public domain goods in various countries, and acquisition of ownership by poachers; land law, including the acquisition a non domino of real estate before January 2014 in the Czech Republic, comparative analysis of the mandatory legal regime for apartment co-ownership in Belgium and France, and the legal status in the Netherlands of the infrastructure of cables and pipes for utilities and other services; and property theory, namely the regulation of the use of property in South Africa law and an access-based paradigm of ownership.

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557) refers to convention, inheritance, accession, acquisitive prescription, occupation, tradition, court ruling, administrative act and other ways if they are strictly regulated by the law.

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Universul Juridic, Bucuresti, 2010; For a detailed presentation of the acquisitive prescription see I.

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This includes rules of acquisitive prescription or adverse

A choice-of-law rule for conflicts involving stolen cultural property

A: Acquisitive prescription of dominion and other real rights may be ordinary or extraordinary.

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