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Are highways good use of land? and why?

I can prove use-age of land for over 12 years but not registered it, can the registered owner force me off it.

  • I can prove the existing boundaries of land I own and also land I have been using which abutts my land been established over 12 years but a descendant of the land I have been maintaing, has now registered title absolute to part of this land. Can anybody please tell me where I stand, as I have not registered any title to that parcel of land.

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    In England/Wales, if that's where you live, it's now difficult to establish a possessory title ("squatter's rights") against a registered owner. It might be worth contacting (by letter, not by 'phone) the Land Registy's office for your area and point out that the owner of the documentary title probably (and perhaps unwittingly, if he/she wasn't familiar with the boundaries) made an incorrect declaration when registering the title, to the effect that nobody else was in occupation.

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You have no right to it. You were maintaining land belonging to someone else as far as i can see from your details.

Michael H

im sure if you maintain land for 5 years you have rights to the land...challenge him with this..

3 para

yup, well at least in california continued and open use/occupation of a parcel of land for 5 years can make it yours. Talk to a lawyer or a real estate agent... it's the law, do it before they kick you out in which case you'll have no say.

G-gnomegrl

Get down to your solicitors - you may have title to the land because you have proof that you've been using it. Don't waste time. Good luck

2dog

Probally the most important question in this is did you pay property tax on the land or made improvements to the property.It will take a lawyer(Real estate) and allot of money.It is possible for an absent landowner to reclaim that is why mortgage co.s want title insurance.

M. P.E

Check the law pertaining to adverse possession in your locality

enord

i think that land becomes yours automatically after ten years if ownership is unchallenged within that time....

kennyjoiner

Here in Tas (Aust) that law has been removed because only a few years ago an elderly person had allowed a neighbour to use their property to run stock on in return for maintaining it- the neighbour later on filed a successful claim on the property. The law has now been rescinded (and most if not all other states as well) because after all you are benefiting fom the use of the land and maintenance/improvements are not an unreasonable consideration for the right to use the property. I think morally and ethically that the true owner of the land is the owners descendant and that you should be thankful for the last 12 years usage that you got of someone elses land.

magpiez

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