The 1833 Act provided that after 20 years of adverse possession ‘the Right and Title’ to the land ‘shall be extinguished’.
Held: By barring the remedy and extinguishing the title of the person out of possession, the Act did not create a new title in the disseisor or convey the dispossessed person’s title to him.
A squatter who dispossessed a lessee and ‘ extinguished ‘ his title by the requisite period of occupation did not become liable in covenant to the lessee’s landlord by virtue of any privity of estate.
(1892) 67 LT 735
Real Property Limitation Act 1833
England and Wales
Land
Updated: 05 December 2021; Ref: scu.252430
