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In the early days of property, I remember Professor P*terson struggling to explain the social benefits of adverse possession. I personally found it very difficult to comprehend of any situation in which some douche bag tresspassor should have legal title over the true owner. This morning, however, I found the closest argument against my position here.

After reading this article, and having spent a fair amount of time in areas with huge numbers of not just vacant buildings, but severely damaged, clearly abandoned buildings, I started to wonder if adverse possession may serve some useful purpose in today's non-agrarian society.

Then I remembered that I hate poor people, and realized that no, no it doesn't.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).