A person must bring suit to recover real property held by another in peaceable and adverse possession under title or color of title not later than three years after the day the cause of action accrues.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.024
ADVERSE POSSESSION: THREE-YEAR LIMITATIONS PERIOD
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case Rogers v. Ricane Enterprises, Inc. (1989)
Most recently applied in Luminant Mining v. PakeyBey (September 2021)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff
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Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.