Editing Adverse possession (section)

===Land Registration Act 2002===
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The [[Land Registration Act 2002]] received royal assent on 26 February 2002.<ref>Explanatory Notes to the Land Registration Act 2002, para. 1</ref> The rules for unregistered land remained as before. But under schedule 6 of the Land Registration Act 2002, paragraphs 1 to 5, after 10 years the adverse possessor is entitled to apply to the registrar to become the new registered owner. The registrar then contacts the registered title holder and notifies him of the application. If no proceedings are launched for two years to eject the adverse possessor, only then would the registrar transfer title. Prior to the Land Registration Act 2002, a land owner could simply lose title without being aware of it or notified. This was the rule because it indicated the owner had never paid sufficient attention to how the land was in fact being used, and therefore the former owner did not deserve to keep it.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} Before 2002, time was seen to cure everything. The rule's function was to ensure land was used efficiently.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Stake |first=J.E. |title=The Uneasy Case for Adverse Possession |volume=2000–2001 |issue=89 |journal=Georgetown Law Journal |page=2419}}</ref>