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		sbierwagen on Jan 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username Yes. This is the point of adverse possession: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession Land should not remain unused.

olsonea on Jan 29, 2014 [–]

Why shouldn't it remain unused?

"They paved paradise, put up a parking lot." Joni Mitchell

IANAL, but I have a hard time believing that a court of law is going to issue a judgement of adverse possession where the perpetrator used fraud/identity theft, extortion and blackmail to come into possession of it.

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