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Powell v McFarlane
(1979) 38 P & CR 452
Key Principle
To establish adverse possession a claimant must prove both factual possession (a sufficient degree of exclusive physical control) and the intention to possess (animus possidendi), to the exclusion of all others including the paper owner.
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