2024 Texas Statutes
Civil Practice and Remedies Code
Title 2 - Trial, Judgment, and Appeal
Subtitle B - Trial Matters
Chapter 16 - Limitations
Subchapter B. Limitations of Real Property Actions
Section 16.024. Adverse Possession: Three-Year Limitations Period

Universal Citation:
TX Civ Prac & Rem Code § 16.024 (2024)
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Sec. 16.024. ADVERSE POSSESSION: THREE-YEAR LIMITATIONS PERIOD. A person must bring suit to recover real property held by another in peaceable and adverse possession under title or color of title not later than three years after the day the cause of action accrues.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.

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