Edwards v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““An action by a person who is an heir or legatee of a deceased person, and who has not been recognized as such in the judgment of possession rendered in the succession of the deceased by a court of competent jurisdiction, to assert any right, title, or interest in any of the property formerly owned by the deceased against a third person who has acquired this property from or through a person recognized as an heir or legatee of the deceased in this judgment of possession, is prescribed in ten years if the third person, or his ancestors in title, singly or collectively, have been in continuous, uninterrupted, peaceable, public, and unequivocal possession of the property for such period after the registry of the judgment of possession in the conveyance records of the parish where the property is situated. “As used herein, ‘third person’ means a person other than one recognized as an heir or legatee of the deceased in the judgment of possession.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackson v. Burks