2014 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Courts and Civil Proceedings
§ 12-521 Definitions
12-521. Definitions
A. In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. " Adverse possession" means an actual and visible appropriation of the land, commenced and continued under a claim of right inconsistent with and hostile to the claim of another.
2. " Peaceable possession" means possession which is continuous, and not interrupted by an adverse action to recover the estate.
3. " Real property" includes mines and mining claims.
B. " Peaceable and adverse possession" need not be continued in the same person, but when held by different persons successively there must be a privity of estate between them.
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