Where I live,
the adverse possession period for land is usually eighteen years, but
the adverse possession period for tangible personal property is three years.
The trial lawyer must establish the historical use of the disputed area over the 20 year
adverse possession period and often many more years.
In Colorado
the adverse possession period for personal property is three years.
Not exact matches
The statutory
period required for
adverse possession is usually quite long — a decade or two needs to pass before
adverse possession occurs.
Consequently, the prescription
period as well as common - law
adverse possession rule can confer upon the «squatting» unit - owner a right to exclusive use of the disputed space that extinguishes a claim for an allocation of exclusive use under a condominium declaration.
(1) The line must be certain, well defined, and in some fashion physically designated upon the ground, e.g., by monuments, roadways, fence lines, etc.; (2) in the absence of an express agreement establishing the designated line as the boundary line, the adjoining landowners, or their predecessors in interest, must have in good faith manifested, by their acts, occupancy, and improvements with respect to their respective properties, a mutual recognition and acceptance of the designated line as the true boundary line; and (3) the requisite mutual recognition an acquiescence in the line must have continued for that
period of time required to secure property by
adverse possession.
Ballatine explains that, as mentioned in other answers,
adverse possession is a species of limitation
period.
Adverse possession is the acquisition of title to real property for a statutory
period of time under certain conditions.