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Blurring lines in the public sands: are Ontario municipalities safe from adverse possession claims?

by DOUMANI R, KAHN N, SEE J
Published in August 2003 - Page 17

Despite active reform of municipal law over the last few years, the Ontario government remains one of a number of provincial governments in Canada that has continued to leave certain municipally-owned land exposed to adverse possession claims.1 This lack of legislative activity for the protection of municipal property interests is all the more striking considering that the Ontario government, at the time it was reforming municipal law, was also reforming the limitation period regime in

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