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They could simply say "register within 2 years or cede the land".
by crdoconnor 8y ago
They could simply say "register within 2 years or cede the land".
- benj111 8y agoIndeed. Although maybe don't word it quite like that. The aim isn't to confiscate land owned by someone, just for them to prove they actually do own it.
- 13of40 8y agoIt would kind of suck for the people who (inevitably) live on a piece of land for which the papers have been lost.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoPapers lost...means that land is lost. Unless you claim adverse possession. This land is now mine because I have here /worked it for xx years, in peace and no one else has claimed it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-1348664/HOME-TRUTHS-How-long-I-claim-land-own.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-1348664/HOME-TR... But then it maybe tricky if you claim 451,222 acres or whatever.
- 13of40 8y agoThat's probably why adverse possession exists at all.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoI think it exists so owners develop /work the land. Use it lose it. Keeps them on their toes and tax coming. Not much use to the state if I buy 10k hectares, leave as it is, and 800 years from now my descendants claim it.
- technofiend 8y agoHurricane Katrina exposed this sort of issue for people in New Orleans. Many residents couldn't produce documentation showing their ancestral homes belonged to them because there had been no impetus to maintain chain of ownership proof over the last hundred+ years.