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Acts amounting to adverse possession

Conditions for the application of adverse possession

Effect of an adverse possession for up to and over 12 years

Position of the law on adverse possession

Requirements to be satisfied for an adverse possessor to gain title

The nature of adverse possessory title in land

The nature of the interest of an adverse possessor

The principle that title to land can be acquired through adverse possession

The rule that adverse possession must be open, visible and unchallenged

What adverse possession connotes

What constitutes adverse possession

What constitutes possession under adverse possession

Whether a claim of an adverse possession can be based on clandestine payments of tribute alone

Whether a grantee of land acquired by the State under the Public Lands Ordinance (Cap 134) can rely on adverse possession

Whether a licensee in occupation of land can assert adverse possession against the rightful owner

Whether a party who alleges that he or she is a caretaker of a land can rely on the plea of adverse possession

Whether a previous owner who continues to remain on land after the compulsory acquisition of the land can maintain an action or defence based on his adverse possession

Whether a trespasser who had been earlier order to vacate land can claim adverse possession

Whether adverse possession can be based on clandestine payment of tribute

Whether adverse possession confers on a party a possessory title which prevails against a registered proprietor of the land

Whether adverse possession is applicable to a case of failure of an executor to distribute the assets devised in a Will to the beneficiaries

Whether an exclusive and long adverse possessor of land can maintain an action in trespass against a former owner thereof whose title has been effectively extinguished by the operation of law

Whether an ousted owner can reacquire title through adverse possession

Whether being in possession is sufficient to extinguish the owner's title after 12 years possession by the adverse possessor

Whether letters calling for the vacation of land by an adverse possessor impact upon the state of adverse possession

Whether long and adverse possession can found claim in title against the true owner

Whether plaintiff would be entitled to a declaration of title if he is able to establish adverse possession of land for more than 12 years

Whether the concept of adverse possession can be applied against the state in relation to compulsorily acquired land; what constitutes such adverse possession

Whether the failure of an adverse possessor to obtain a building permit affects his right to adverse possession

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