01-12-2009, 11:48 AM
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Originally posted by pslamont
How did these laws get into place anyway? It just seems wrong but maybe there is something I don't understand. What am I missing?
This is fromt he Wiki article:
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Plainly stated, this means the law does not reward a person who neglects to enforce his property rights by allowing him to claim the fruit of another person's labor at a later time. Failure of a landowner to exercise and defend his property rights for a certain length of time may result in the permanent loss of the landowner's interest in the property.
There must be a long history behind this law because all states seem to have some version of it and it goes back to English law. Any legal types care to explain?