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Constructive possession [1] is a legal fiction to describe a situation in which an individual has actual control over chattels or real property without actually having physical control of the same assets. At law, a person with constructive possession stands in the same legal position as someone with actual possession.
[1] In property law, it is a justification for assigning property rights to landowners over resources found on their own land. [2] Traditionally, the doctrine of ratione soli provides landowners "constructive possession of natural resources on, over, and under the surface: cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum ad infernos." [3]
In the same way, the passage of time can bring to an end the owner's right to recover exclusive possession of a property without losing the ownership of it, as when an adverse easement for use is granted by a court. In civil law countries, possession is not a right but a (legal) fact, which enjoys certain protection by the law.
The doctrine applies when a landlord of real property has acted in a way that renders the property uninhabitable. Constructive Eviction does not have to be intentional by the landlord, and acts can range from failure to remove pests or fix necessary appliances, to changing locks or creating a hostile environment.
Adverse possession is a legal concept that occurs when a trespasser, someone with no legal title, can gain legal ownership over a piece of property if the actual owner does not challenge it within ...
Community property; Concurrent estate; Condition precedent; Condition subsequent; Conflict of property laws; Constructive eviction; Constructive possession; Court auction; Covenant (law) Property crime; Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos; Cultural property law; Customary land
In Texas, where it takes 10 years of squatting to obtain property through "adverse possession," a man named Kenneth Robinson recently tried to claim a $330,000 home in the city of Flower Mound for ...
Property law in the United States is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land and buildings) and personal property, including intangible property such as intellectual property. Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property. [1]