Usually means: Acquiring property through continuous use.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. adverse possession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. adverse possession: Collins English Dictionary
  3. adverse possession: Wordnik
  4. adverse possession: Wiktionary
  5. adverse possession: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. adverse possession: Dictionary.com
  7. Adverse possession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. adverse possession: FreeDictionary.org
  9. adverse possession: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. adverse possession: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. adverse possession: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. adverse possession: Legal dictionary
  11. adverse possession: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  13. Adverse possession: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adverse possession: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ADVERSE POSSESSION, ADVERSE POSSESSION, ADVERSE POSSESSION: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (adverse possession)

noun:  (law) A means of acquiring title to another's real property without compensation by occupying the property in a manner that has under common law the requirements of being actual, open and notorious, exclusive, hostile, under cover of claim or right, and continuous for a certain number of years.

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