adverse possession. 1. The use or enjoyment of real property with a claim of right when that use or enjoyment is continuous, exclusive, hostile, open, and notorious. • In Louisiana, it is the detention or enjoyment of a corporeal thing with the intent to hold it as one’s own. La. Civ. Code art. 3421. — […]
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ancient-lights doctrine. The common-law principle by which a landowner acquired, after 20 years of uninter-rupted use, an easement preventing a neighbor from building an obstruction that blocks light from passing through the landowner’s window. • The window (or other opening) is termed an ancient light. This doctrine has rarely been applied in the United States.
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Civil law. The exercise of physical detention or control over a thing, as by occupying a building or cultivating farmland. • Natural possession may be had without title, and may give rise to a claim of unlawful possession or a claim of ownership by acquisitive prescription. The term “natural possession” has been replaced by the
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