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Introduction Land ownership and possessory rights have always been contentious issues for land law practitioners, and the concept of adverse possession adds a new layer of complexity to these old-age issues. In the words of one researcher, “It would appear that in the arena of problematic doctrines of law, adverse possession carries the trophy in...

“When the ghosts from the past stand in the path of justice, clanking their medieval chains, the proper course of the judge is to pass through them undeterred.” Lord Atkin in United Australia Limited v Barclays Bank Limited [1941] A.C 1 INTRODUCTION Justice Benjamin N Cardozo observed in the case of In Re Rouss[1] that, “Membership...