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BRIHASPATI.
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5. Immovable property obtained by a division (of the estate among co-heirs), or by purchase, or inherited from a father (or other ancestor), or presented by the king, is acknowledged as one's lawful property; it is lost by forbearance in the case of adverse possession.
IX, 5.
6. He who is holding possession (of an estate) after having merely taken it, occupying it without meeting with resistance, becomes its legitimate owner thus; and it is lost (to the owner) by such forbear
ance.
7. He whose possession has been continuous from the time of occupation, and has never been interrupted for a period of thirty years, cannot be deprived of such property.
8. That property which is publicly given by coheirs or others to a stranger who is enjoying it, cannot be recovered afterwards by him (who is its legitimate owner).
9. He who does not raise a protest when a stranger is giving away (his) landed property in his sight, cannot again recover that estate, even though he be possessed of a written title to it.
10. Possession held by three generations produces ownership for strangers, no doubt, when they are related to one another in the degree of a Sapinda; it does not stand good in the case of Sakulyas.
11. A house, field, commodity or other property having been held by another person than the owner,
8, 9. Vîram. p. 209.
5, 6. Col. Dig. V, 6, 384. 10-12. Col. Dig. V, 7, 396.
10-14. Vîram. p. 221. Sapindaship in this rule includes four generations; the term Sakulya is used to denote more remote relations.
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