What Excuse Can I Make To My Friend?
Family & Relationships1 min ago
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If a person encroaches on (i.e. occupies without permission, or squats) their neighbour's land (including a local authority's land) without permission for at least ten years, using it openly, continuously, exclusively and intentionally, they may be able to become the legal owner.
During the period, the squatter can pass on the premises or land by gift or will to someone else, who can then add the squatter's length of occupation to their own.
Of course if the Highways authority decides to take it back you have a boundary dispute and you'll need to take the issue to court.
Good luck!
It all depends on whether the land is registered with the Land Registry. This is where you would trace the ownership of the land in question.
Prior to the Land Registration Act 2002, a squatter wishing to claim ownership of land by adverse possession would have had to:
The above still applies in the case of a squatter seeking to adversely possess unregistered land. However, if the land is registered it belongs to the person indicated no matter whomever else tries to claim it.