USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is adverse possession in India? According to the legal definition of adverse possession, a person who has lived on a piece of land without a title for 12 years with the owner’s consent could be able to claim ownership of the land in question.

Detailed explanation-2: -Minimum time requirements – Before any adverse possession application can be considered you must have been using (or in possession of the land) for at least ten years.

Detailed explanation-3: -Generally speaking, if you have been occupying lands that you do not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use in excess of 12 years (or in the case of Crown lands 30 years), without any objection from the registered owner, you can claim what is known as “adverse possession”.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Transfer of property” defined.-In the following sections “transfer of property” means an act by which a living person conveys property, in present or in future, to one or more other living persons, or to himself, 1[or to himself] and one or more other living persons; and “to transfer property” is to perform such act.