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    Adverse possession not under written instrument or judgment
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    SECTION 522

    Essentials of adverse possession not under written instrument or judgment

    Real Property Actions & Proceedings (RPA) CHAPTER 81, ARTICLE 5

    § 522. Essentials of adverse possession not under written instrument
    or judgment. For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession not
    founded upon a written instrument or a judgment or decree, land is
    deemed to have been possessed and occupied in either of the following
    cases, and no others:

    1. Where there have been acts sufficiently open to put a reasonably
    diligent owner on notice.

    2. Where it has been protected by a substantial enclosure, except as
    provided in subdivision one of section five hundred forty-three of this
    article.