adverse possession

• hostile possession

adverse possession (countable and uncountable, plural adverse possessions)

1. (law) A means of acquiring title to another's real property without compensation by occupying the property in a manner that has under common law the requirements of being actual, open and notorious, exclusive, hostile, under cover of claim or right, and continuous for a certain number of years.
   • 2019, Anthony McCann, Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff‎, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

     Adverse possession was a legal maneuver straight out of the Sovereign Citizen canon.

• usucaption, usucapion (mostly or comparatively, for civil law or religious law rather than common law)
• prescription

• disseisee (US) or disseizee (UK) - one whose property is adversely possessed
• disseisor (US) or disseizor (UK) - one who is adversely possessing the property of another

• adversely possess

• possession is nine-tenths of the law
• squatter's rights