115 So. 2d 658 - Scott v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “Art. 3499. Immovables, possession without title or good faith Art. 3499. The ownership of immovables is prescribed for by thirty years without any need of title or possession in good faith. Art. 852. Acquisitive prescription beyond title Art. 852. Whether the titles, exhibited by the parties, whose lands are to be limited, consist of primitive concessions of other acts by which property may be transferred, if it be proved that the person whose title is of the latest date, or those under whom he holds, have enjoyed, in good or bad faith, uninterrupted possession during thirty years, of any quantity of land beyond that mentioned in his title, he will be permitted to retain it, and his neighbor, though he have a more ancient title, will only have a right to the excess; for if one can not prescribe against his own title, he can prescribe beyond his title or for more than it calls for, provided it be by thirty years possession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ponder v. Fussell

2. ““We find the defendant has failed to establish: first, a visible boundary which had been in existence for thirty years or more; and second, that he and his predecessors have, in addition to the land described in the title, actually possessed continuously for thirty years or more any land embraced in the Woodley title. These findings require the pleas of prescription urged by the appellee to be and they are hereby overruled.” [ 115 So.2d 663 .]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scott v. Blanton