Adverse possession is a doctrine of law that governs claims on land. Essentially, the doctrine states that if you treat a portion of land as your own for long enough, you can claim that land as your own through the doctrine of adverse possession. This is an oversimplified explanation of a complex legal principle, but it gets the point across. An example of adverse possession would be a neighbor who accidentally builds a fence several feet over a property line. The error isn’t discovered for several decades. During that time, everyone believed the fence to be on the property line. After the expiration of enough time, the person who built the fence could claim the additional foot of land under the doctrine of adverse possession.

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