Adverse possession is the fancy lawyer word for squatters and their rights and regulates how, if at all, occupiers can end up owning land just by using it - without complaint by the legal owner - for a period of time. Be it remote woodland or that old boarded-up downtown building now filled with homeless people, adverse possession law is an essential element of any real property ownership legal system.

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To whomever owns the land, shall own the earth to its center and up to the heavens, has said the law since time immemorial. That, before the advent of planes, trains and automobiles (and underground subways and power lines). This article looks at the battle of this maxim against the demands of a "modern" world.

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The vast self-governing dominion created in 1867, with umbilical ties to the British still ongoing, Canada's legal history is rich, state-of-the-art model of freedom and democracy. But as with anything cutting edge, progress has been steady yet slow. These articles bring you to the significant moments of law-making or law-shaping, raw and uncensored.

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Easements and covenants can be like leaches; easily on but a devil to shake ... and painful; too!

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Of "homos" and government.

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