adverse claimant

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• adverse claim — As respects adverse possession, a claim to possession which is hostile to the true owner. In mining law, a formal assertion of an adverse claimant made under oath and filed in the United States land office pending an application for a patent.… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Adverse Possession — A principle of real estate law that allows a person who possesses someone else s land for an extended period of time to claim legal title to that land. Land claimed under adverse possession does not require the claimant to pay for that land, but… …   Investment dictionary

• constructive adverse possession — Type of adverse possession which, under certain statutes, is characterized by payment of taxes under color of right, as distinguished from actual adverse possession in which the adverse claimant is in actual possession …   Black's law dictionary

• constructive adverse possession — Type of adverse possession which, under certain statutes, is characterized by payment of taxes under color of right, as distinguished from actual adverse possession in which the adverse claimant is in actual possession …   Black's law dictionary

• title — A mark, style, or designation; a distinctive appellation; the name by which anything is known. Thus, in the law of persons, a title is an appellation of dignity or distinction, a name denoting the social rank of the person bearing it; as duke or… …   Black's law dictionary

• interruption of possession — An interruption of the continuity of the possession of an adverse claimant; any substantial interruption in the possession of an adverse claimant. 3 Am J2d Adv P § 68. The effect is to restore constructive possession to the owner. 3 Am J2d Adv P… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• abandonment — The surrender, relinquishment, disclaimer, or cession of property or of rights. Voluntary relinquishment of all right, title, claim and possession, with the intention of not reclaiming it. State v. Bailey, 97 N. J.Super. 396, 235 A.2d 214, 216.… …   Black's law dictionary

• abandonment — The surrender, relinquishment, disclaimer, or cession of property or of rights. Voluntary relinquishment of all right, title, claim and possession, with the intention of not reclaiming it. State v. Bailey, 97 N. J.Super. 396, 235 A.2d 214, 216.… …   Black's law dictionary

• first in payment of taxes — The rule which determines rights by adverse possession where taxes paid by both adverse claimant and owner. 3 Am J2d Adv P § 127 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• quiet title action — A proceeding to establish the plaintiffs title to land by bringing into court an adverse claimant and there compelling him either to establish his claim or be forever after estopped from asserting it. See also action to quiet title cloud on title …   Black's law dictionary

• actio confessoria — A civil law action wherein the plaintiff sought to establish his right to a servitude as against the owner of the land or any other adverse claimant, and also to compel acknowledgment of his right …   Ballentine's law dictionary