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The law originates from English Law (Common Law and Equity) which is widely practiced by most countries that had English colonizers like USA, Canada, Nigeria, etc.

An Adverse Possessor (AP) is one who occupies a land without the permission of the owner, somehow. Say you built a house and then traveled to another continent and have been gone for 10 years or so and a stranger just moves into your house without letting you know, that stranger is an Adverse Possessor.

If this AP then decides to rent out part of your house in order to make extra cash and after a while the tenant discovers that he isn't the owner of the house and decides to stop paying rent, the AP can sue the tenant, and when the tenant tells the Court that the AP is not the owner of the house the court would say it doesn't matter, that the tenant must pay or be evicted.

LOL.

The law is no one can contest the house/lamd with the AP, and whether he owns the house or not is nobody's business except the owner of the house. So until the owner of the house returns and tries to take it from the AP, the AP can do whatever he wants with the house except sell it.

Guys, isn't this some crazy ass law?

And when the owner returns, guess what the law says? The owner can't just forcibly enter and evict this stranger, owner has to follow due process amd get a court order first. LOL.

You already kinda feel like being a successful AP, huh?

The thing is, my research has been on Nigerian Laws, and this AP law stands in Nigeria, but because its origin is English Law I think it still stands in England and a lot of other jurisdictions the British colonized.

Although in addition to this some countries have brutal trespass laws. Plus even in countries where this AP law holds sway, when the owner returns and obtains the Court order that enables him to evict the AP, thw owner can sue the AP for trespass and other damages. So being an AP is not that much fun 😅. But a successful AP, though, could be the dream 🤣🤣.

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