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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (130877)5/1/2004 6:49:12 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Merely saying you own a piece of land isn't sufficient to maintain the title. You have to use it. If someone else comes along and uses it, openly and notoriously, acting like the owner, then after a relatively brief period of years, it belongs to that person. If you use it less openly and notoriously, you can still get title via prescription/squatter's rights, but it takes longer.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. So, if I went up to the deserted Northwest Territories of Canada somewhere, and managed to log and live there for awhile, I could declare that "my" land? Or declare it property of the US?
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