514 So. 2d 993 - Armstrong v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “"In Alabama there are basically two types of adverse possession, these two types being statutory adverse possession and adverse possession by prescription. Adverse possession by prescription requires actual, exclusive, open, notorious and hostile possession under a claim of right for a period of twenty years. See, Fitts v. Alexander , 277 Ala. 372 , 170 So.2d 808 (1965). Statutory adverse possession requires the same elements, but the statute provides further that if the *Page 67 adverse possessor holds under color of title, has paid taxes for ten years, or derives his title by descent cast or devise from a possessor, he may acquire title in ten years, as opposed to the twenty years required for adverse possession by prescription. Code 1975, § 6-5-200 . See, Long v. Ladd , 273 Ala. 410 , 142 So.2d 660 (1962)."”

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   e.g. 549 So. 2d 65 - Daugherty v. Miller