{"id":834,"date":"2025-01-18T18:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=834"},"modified":"2025-01-18T18:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:44:43","slug":"adverse-possession-cannot-be-acquired-merely-by-mowing-grass-and-tending-the-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2025\/01\/18\/adverse-possession-cannot-be-acquired-merely-by-mowing-grass-and-tending-the-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Adverse possession cannot be acquired merely by mowing grass and tending the lawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although mowing grass can be a factor in demonstrating \u201cpossession\u201d of property, it cannot (by itself) prove exclusion of the record owner or \u201cactual possession\u201d sufficient to obtain title by adverse possession. <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/north-dakota\/supreme-court\/2024-20230322.pdf?ts=1720188420\">Hovet v. Dahl<\/a>, 9 N.W.3d 699 (N.D. 2024). Nor is it sufficient to prove \u201cacquiescence\u201d to a change in the border between the properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although mowing grass can be a factor in demonstrating \u201cpossession\u201d of property, it cannot (by itself) prove exclusion of the record owner or \u201cactual possession\u201d sufficient to obtain title by adverse possession. Hovet v. Dahl, 9 N.W.3d 699 (N.D. 2024). Nor is it sufficient to prove \u201cacquiescence\u201d to a change in the border between the properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverse-possession","category-trespass"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}