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Cap. 16 · Civil Code (Cap. 16)

Cap. 16 Art. 462Where easement acquired by prescription.

Sub-title II

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(1) In order to acquire an easement by prescription, is possession for a period of not less than thirty years is necessary.

(2) If the servient tenement is subject to entail, or belongs to a church or any other pious institution, the prescriptive period is forty years.

(3) In the cases referred to in this article, the person pleading prescription is not bound to produce a title, and no plea on the ground of bad faith can be set up against him.