Marvel v. Barley Mill Road Homes

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs had established ownership by adverse possession
• explaining “[t]he acquirement of title by right of adverse possession . . . creates a new legal title though not a record title and that title would not be lost by a cessation of possession and continued exclusive possession is not necessary to maintain it”
• “The owner is, of course, chargeable with knowledge of what is openly done on his land and therefore calculated to attract attention.”
• “As a general rule it will be sufficient if the land is so used by the adverse claimant as to apprise the community in its locality that it is in his exclusive use and enjoyment, and to put the owner on inquiry as to the nature and extent of the invasion of his right”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).