Twenty years of camping and hunting on an unregistered parcel of woods was enough to establish an outdoorsman as the legal owner of the tract through adverse possession, the Delaware Court of Chancery has ruled.
The Chancery Court took the opportunity in the decision to sharpen precedent on the doctrine of adverse possession, which requires the open and continuous, as well as “hostile and adverse,” use of land in order to establish ownership.
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