How to avoid land theft

[Duc Ta]

How to avoid land theft if you invest in buying land. I heard at some states there are rule that if someone stay at the land more than 5-10 years, it automatically grant the title to that person even though he might be a stray or a person who does not own the land before?

[Davido Davido]

Ohio Statute requires 21 years of use to adversely possess the property of another person. You can easily avoid losing any land by knowing your property lines and checking/walking your properties every few years.  The person adverse to you must use the property openly, notoriously and continuously and must exclude you from using it all.  It really is not an issue for 99999 out of 100,000 property owners. https://www.nolo.com/legal-enc...  or https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-re...