Adverse possession query Adverse possession query

3 years ago

My great grandfather transfer some of his land to his daughter(grandfather sister), but she never accepted it, her brothers means my grandfather & his brother cultivated the land, it all happened around 30 to 40 years ago, we naver gave them any money or corp, now they want us to vacate the land. Is there a way to stop them, can we file for Adverse possession?

Rameshwar Dadhe

Responded 3 years ago

A.It is ancestral property they have right to property. Don't file adverse possession suit because not helpful for you
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Ayantika Mondal @ Prime Legal

Responded 3 years ago

A.Adverse does not apply here as they have options to file partition suits. Try to discuss and settle the issues.
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Kishan Dutt Kalaskar

Responded 3 years ago

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A.You can claim title by way of adverse possession. They should have claimed within 12 years of such document. you are then owners and in legal possession. Please give me Rank 5 if you feel my answer helped you.
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ADVERSE POSSESSION

In other words, whether Article 65 of the Act only enables a person to set up a plea of adverse possession as a shield as a defendant and such a plea cannot be used as a sword by a plaintiff to protect the possession of immovable property or to recover it in case of dispossession

Plea Of Adverse Possession – A Shield As Well As A Sword, Clarifies Supreme Court
https://www.mondaq.com/india/trials-appeals-compensation/844224/plea-of-adverse-possession-a-shield-as-well-as-a-sword-clarifies-supreme-court

There are many judgments and the recent one is as follows:

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Protest within 12 years or lose property to squatter

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ONE THE ABOVE FORMULA THE OPPOSITE PARTY LOSE ITS CASE.

If a person does not protest someone illegally occupying his property for 12 years, then the squatter would get ownership rights over that property, the Supreme Court has ruled.

A bench of Justices R K Agrawal and A M Sapre said if a person proved actual, peaceful and uninterrupted possession of a property owned by another for more than 12 years, “a case of adverse possession can be held to be made out which, in turn, results in depriving the true owner of his ownership rights in the property and vests ownership rights of the property in the person who claims it”.

However, the bench put in a caveat by ruling that such a person (squatter) must necessarily first admit ownership of the true owner over the property and make the true owner a party to the suit before a court for claiming ownership over the property through adverse possession.
This ruling came in a case where a Muslim man had claimed ownership over a property through adverse possession in Jalgaon of Maharashtra. He had attempted to advance the plea of adverse possession to claim ownership rights over the property, which was inherited by a Muslim woman after the death of her father.

Setting aside a Bombay high court order in favour of the man, the SC bench said, “When both courts below held and, in our view rightly, that the defendant has failed to prove the plea of adverse possession, then such concurrent finding of fact was unimpeachable and binding on the HC. The HC erred fundamentally in observing that it was not necessary for the defendant to first admit the ownership of the plaintiff before raising such a plea.”
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