1. Land and the Law of Adverse Possession
... regulation, this person is allowed to acquire the title to the land and extinguish the rights of the 'paper owner'. The purpose of adverse possession is to encourage beneficial use of the land. It balances the equity between the person using the land and the owner who may not even know he has the land and encourages the alienability of the land. It also settles border disputes and ... owner and they will then be give three options – i) willingly forfeit the title as in Balevents v Satori; ii) paper owner objects to the squatter's application, making finalisation of the application...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate