Adverse Possession

Match the definition with the correct word or phrase: Someone else assumes ordinary possession of land

• Paper owner

• Discontinuance

• Squatter

• Dispossession

Match the definition with the correct word or phrase: Land is abandoned

• Paper owner

• Discontinuance

• Squatter

• Dispossession

Match the definition with the correct word or phrase: A person who takes adverse possession of land

• Paper owner

• Discontinuance

• Squatter

• Dispossession

Match the definition with the correct word or phrase: A person who owns land but who has been dispossessed

• Paper owner

• Discontinuance

• Squatter

• Dispossession

Which of the following are required elements in proving adverse possession? Please select all that apply

• The required degree of exclusive physical possession

• An intention to possess the land to the exclusion of all others, including the paper owner

• An absence of consent by the paper owner

• Driving out or ouster of the paper owner by the squatter

In Pye v. Graham [2002] UKHL 30, it was held that the required degree of physical possession is shown by going into

ordinary possession of the land.

• True

• False

What is the correct legal definition of 'Animus possidendi'?

• The intention, in one's own name and on one's own behalf, to exclude the world at large, including the owner with the paper

  title, so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow.

• The intention, in one's own name and on one's own behalf, to own the land, thus taking it away from the paper owner

  permanently.

• The intention, in one's own name and on one's own behalf, to possess the land to the exclusion of all others, and to fight off

  actively any claim by the paper owner to the land

• The intention to use the land for as long as possible, in common with others.

In which situations will the occupier be on the land with the consent of the paper owner? Please select all that apply.

• The occupier is a tenant paying rent to the paper owner.

• The occupier is a licensee under an express licence from the paper owner.

• The occupier is a trustee of the land.

• The occupier is a former tenant who has stopped paying rent.

Which of the following actions by the paper owner before the limitation period has expired will stop it from continuing to run

in the squatter's favour? Please select all that apply.

• Bringing an action for possession of the land.

• Visiting the squatter and asking him to leave.

• Sending a letter asserting ownership of the land.

• Granting a licence to the squatter.

Match the statutory provision to the statement of the effect of adverse possession:

Extinguishes the paper owner's title

• Land Registration Act 2002 s.96

• Land Registration Act 1925 s.75

• Limitation Act 1980 s.17

• Land Registration Act 2002 5ch.6