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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO PROPERTY – BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Cortvriend, Edwards, Solomon, Craven, Phillips, and
Batista

     Date Introduced: February 16, 2022

     Referred To: House Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

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     SECTION 1. Section 34-7-1 of the General Laws in Chapter 34-7 entitled "By Possession

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and Prescription" is hereby amended to read as follows:

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     34-7-1. Conclusive title by peaceful possession under claim of title.

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     Where any person or persons, or others from whom he, she, or they derive their title, either

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by themselves, tenants or lessees, shall have been for the space of ten (10) twenty (20) years in the

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uninterrupted, quiet, peaceful and actual seisin and possession of any lands, tenements or

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hereditaments, excepting woodlands or uncultivated tracts, and thirty (30) years in the

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uninterrupted, quiet, peaceful and actual seisin and possession of woodlands and uncultivated

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tracts, for and during that time, claiming the same as his, her or their proper, sole and rightful estate

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in fee simple, the actual seisin and possession shall be allowed to give and make a good and rightful

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title to the person or persons, their heirs and assigns forever; and any plaintiff suing for the recovery

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of any such lands may rely upon the possession as conclusive title thereto, and this chapter being

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pleaded in bar to any action that shall be brought for the lands, tenements or hereditaments, and the

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actual seisin and possession being duly proved, shall be allowed to be good, valid and effectual in

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law for barring the action.

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     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO PROPERTY – BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION

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     This act would extend the time period to establish adverse possession of property from ten

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(10) years to twenty (20) years of uninterrupted, quiet, peaceful and actual seisin and possession of

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any lands, tenements or hereditaments, excepting woodlands or uncultivated tracts, and thirty (30)

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years in the uninterrupted, quiet, peaceful and actual seisin and possession of woodlands and

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uncultivated tracts.

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     This act would take effect upon passage.

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