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Idaho Code § 5-207

Possession under written claim of title

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Kennedy v. Schneider (2011)

Most recently applied in Kennedy v. Schneider (May 2011)

C.C.P. 1881, § 147; R.S., R.C., & C.L., § 4040; C.S., § 6600; I.C.A., § 5-207; am. 2006, ch. 158, § 4, p. 474.

When it appears that the occupant, or those under whom he claims, entered into the possession of the property under claim of title, exclusive of other right, founding such claim upon a written instrument, as being a conveyance of the property in question, or upon the decree or judgment of a competent court, and that there has been a continued occupation and possession of the property included in such instrument, decree or judgment, or of some part of the property under such claim, for twenty (20) years, the property so included is deemed to have been held adversely except that when it consists of a tract divided into lots, the possession of one (1) lot is not deemed a possession of any other lot of the same tract.

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.