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Nazir v Begum [2024] EWHC 378 (KB), 21 February 2024 Adverse possession - Sch.6 para.12 - estate subject to a trust - personal representatives The facts The Appellants' father had [...]

Introduction The Court of Appeals for Arkansas, Second Division, recently affirmed the dismissal of a complaint seeking to quiet title a tract of undeveloped land between two neighbors on the [...]

The concept of adverse possession (sometimes referred to as squatter rights) makes it possible to acquire legal title to a property, despite not purchasing or having it formally transferred to [...]

A dispute between neighbours over a strip of land between their properties no wider than 21.9 centimetres resulted in years of litigation supported by no less than ten affidavits. A [...]

A question that arises with some frequency in our practice is whether a public entity can adversely possess a property interest against another public entity. The general rule of thumb [...]

Following are this week's summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 25, 2023. It was another fairly light week. Topics covered this week included: [...]

In the recent decision of Kosicki v Toronto, 1 the Ontario Court of Appeal updated the common law test for adverse possession of municipal lands, making it increasingly difficult for [...]

Adverse possession is a legal principle by which an individual who is not the legal owner of land can become the legal owner by being in possession of the land [...]

On February 21, 2023, the New York Supreme Court ('the Court') issued its opinion in Gelles v. Sauvage, NY Slip Op 50120(U) (Sup. Ct. 2023), a factually interesting but relatively [...]

On occasion, questions will arise regarding the impact of what seems to be a neighboring property owner's use of your land. It may seem contrary to what you believe the [...]

Title Nerds Episode 7 features one of Riker Danzig's impressive retired judges, the Hon. Travis L. Francis, who was Assignment Judge for Middlesex County, Superior Court of New Jersey before [...]

Colin White, Frances White v Merwin Amirthan Amirtharaja, Jennifer Shiromi Amirtharaja [2022] EWCA Civ 11, 13 January 2022 The facts Brie Stevens-Hoare QC acted for the successful Respondents before the [...]

The California Court of Appeals, Fifth Appellate Division, recently found for defendant Citibank, N.A. ('Citibank') in a dispute over the ownership of property in an unincorporated area of southern California. [...]

Fences may make good neighbours but not when they can't agree on where the fence should be located. In Lombardo v. 2672140 Ontario Inc., 2021 ONSC 5523 (CanLII), the parties [...]

In a recent post, I discussed three situations in which a debtor in bankruptcy might find itself dispossessed of assets that appeared to be property of the bankruptcy estate. This [...]

A deceased person's life in a village of Papua New Guinea and his highly valuable Brisbane property. Those were the subject of an interesting deceased estate dispute from the Supreme [...]

The California Court of Appeals recently held that a party adversely possessed an exclusive parking easement by using it for 17 years, even if it did not erect any physical [...]

Parking space disputes between neighbors, when coupled, conflated and complicated with claims of adverse possession, can ignite a legal conflagration. And, as a recent case illustrates, jurisprudential fireworks intensify exponentially [...]

In Dowse and Another v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council [2020] UKUT 202 (LC), the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) (following a fully remote hearing conducted over Skype for Business) [...]

Q: Is there such a thing as 'squatters' rights'? A: Under the doctrine of adverse possession (sometimes colloquially referred to as 'squatter's rights'), you could lose your property, or at [...]

The recent Supreme Court Judgment in case of Vidya Devi Vs. The State of Himachal Pradesh and Ors, Civil Appeal nos. 6061 OF 2020, has restored the faith of the [...]

A property developer in Sydney has succeeded against the relatives of a deceased property owner in his right to the title deed of a home in the inner Western Sydney [...]

Introduction The Supreme Court, in its recent decision in Ravinder Kaur Grewal & Ors. v. Manjit Kaur & Ors[1]., has clarified that a person claiming title by virtue of adverse [...]

When is a taxpayer entitled to a refund of property taxes mistakenly paid for property that the taxpayer does not own? The Tax Court of New Jersey recently ruled that [...]