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What is 'tacking' in the context of Delaware adverse possession?
AAdding improvements to increase property value
BAdding together successive periods of hostile possession by prior possessors to meet the statutory period✓ Correct
CThe process of attaching a deed to the public record
DA form of estoppel preventing the owner from reclaiming the land
Explanation
Tacking allows an adverse possessor to add (tack on) the period of possession of a prior adverse possessor (with a privity of title between them) to their own period to meet the 20-year statutory period for adverse possession in Delaware.
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Key Terms to Know
Adverse Possession
A doctrine by which a person can gain legal title to another's land by openly, continuously, and adversely occupying it for a statutory period.
DeedA written legal instrument used to transfer ownership of real property from one party (grantor) to another (grantee).
Abstract of TitleA condensed history of a property's title, summarizing all recorded documents and encumbrances affecting it from the earliest record to the present.
Chain of TitleThe sequential record of all transfers of ownership for a piece of property from the original patent holder to the present owner.
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