Adverse Possession and Prescriptive Easements
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This course covers the topics of adverse possession and prescriptive easements. . Both are legally -established means in which a party may acquire either legal title, or the deeded privilege, to use land belonging to another party without the expressed consent of that owner. Surveyors who perform boundary retracement surveys must be familiar with this legal doctrine; these types of boundary surveys are often muddled by the existence of an adverse possession or prescriptive easement claim on the property.