{"id":11611,"date":"2023-06-05T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2025-03-30T03:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:09:22","slug":"what-is-adverse-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-adverse-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Adverse Possession?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Adverse Possession:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>legal concept<\/strong> that a<strong>llows a person who has unlawfully occupied someone else\u2019s land for a certain period of time to claim legal ownership <\/strong>of that land.<\/li>\n<li>The claimant, or disseisor, <strong>must demonstrate that several criteria<\/strong> have been met before the court will allow their claim.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In India, adverse possession has been a part of the legal framework<\/strong> for a long time and is rooted in the <strong>idea that land must not be left vacant and instead be put to judicious use.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To claim adverse possession, the <strong>occupier must prove that they have been in continuous, uninterrupted possession of the land for at least 12 years<\/strong> and that their <strong>possession was open, notorious, and hostile to the true owner.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The law of Adverse Possession in India is <strong>governed by the principle of The Limitation Law of 1963.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As per adverse possession under limitation act, <strong>if over a due course of time or period, if an appeal is not made to revise any limitation, the current scenario of titles continues.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>According to the Indian legal system, <strong>if a property owner fails to make a claim towards their property for 12 years, and the same tenant continues to occupy the property for 12 years, the ownership rights to the property is transferred to the tenant.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Law Commission of India?<\/h3>\n<p>Law Commission of India is a non-statutory body and is constituted by a notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Law &amp; Justice, Department of Legal Affairs with a definite terms of reference to carry out research in the field of law and the Commission makes recommendations to the Government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/top-stories\/law-commission-report-supreme-court-adverse-possession-no-justification-for-introducing-any-change-229927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Law Commission Says No Need To Reconsider Law On Adverse Possession; Disagrees With Supreme Court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possession is a legal concept that allows a person who has unlawfully occupied someone else\u2019s land for a certain period of time to claim legal ownership of that land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}