tacking

tacking
In a property situation the right, in certain circumstances, to obtain priority for a further advance made pursuant to a second debt, notwithstanding that subsequent charges have been granted.

Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. . 2010.


tacking
n. An adding together of consecutive times of occupation or possession by different persons, and treating those periods as a single continuous one, especially the uniting of consecutive terms of land possession by persons other than its owner in order to establish a continuous period of adverse possession for the required statutory period, so as to establish ownership.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


tacking
The process whereby an individual who is in adverse possession of real property adds his or her period of possession to that of a prior adverse possessor.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


tacking
The process whereby an individual who is in adverse possession of real property adds his or her period of possession to that of a prior adverse possessor.

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