Gillis v. Curd’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “According to the settled doctrine of the above statutes as declared by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, when applied to lands in a community where fences are not customary, a person, by entering upon a part of a tract or parcel of unin-closed [sic] land in the name of the whole, may gain title to all of it by adverse possession. When such person settles within a large body of wild, uncultivated, unenclosed [sic], vacant land, his title by adverse possession, and those claiming under him, ripens to the following boundaries: (1) to buildings, clearings or inclosed [sic] lands where maintained for the statutory period, (2) to boundaries kept marked for such period and in such way as to give to the owner of the land ... notice that it was a marked boundary and that some person was claiming to be in hostile possession of the land therein, (3) by putting to record in the County Clerk’s office of the County where the land is located for the statutory period, a deed describing its boundaries by natural or artificial objects so that it can be run by a surveyor, although the boundary described in the deed need not be sufficient to constitute a well-marked boundary without the deed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moore v. Stills