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adverse possessions

adverse possessions is the plural of adverse possession.

Meaning of adverse possession

Noun

adverse possession (countable and uncountable, plural adverse possessions)

  1. 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

Questions about adverse possessions

What is adverse possessions the plural of?
Adverse possessions is the plural of adverse possession.

Words near adverse possessions in the dictionary

  1. adverse interest rule
  2. adverse interests
  3. adverse parties
  4. adverse party
  5. adverse possession
  6. adverse possessions
  7. adverse selection
  8. adverse witness
  9. adverse witnesses
  10. adverse yaw
  11. adversely

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