1. Land and the Law of Adverse Possession
... must be met to establish a successful claim of adverse possession. Buckinghamshire sought to codify the principles of adverse possession in an attempt to bring some certainty to the law. First requirement which must be met is that the paper owner must stop to possess the land and squatter starts to behave in the same way, as if it was his property ... Grand Chamber considered the operation of limitation rules to be concerned with the control of possession rather than with deprivation. In the view of dissenting judges, absence of compensation carried a requirement of a string of measures...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate