If the owner or occupant of any land adjoining any railroad or canal has, since June 10, 1831, taken into his enclosure any part of the land belonging to such railroad or canal, as located and established, or since that time has erected any building upon any such land; or, if any person takes into his enclosure any part of land belonging to a railway company within the limits of which such company has located an electric railway, or erects any building upon any part of such land, no adverse possession of the land so enclosed or built upon shall confer any title thereto.
(1949 Rev., S. 7110.)
Railroad may abandon right-of-way. 86 C. 275; 88 C. 515.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 47 - Land and Land Titles
Section 47-1. - Fee simple an absolute property. Colonial grants valid.
Section 47-2. - Charitable uses.
Section 47-3. - Estate given in fee tail.
Section 47-4. - Rule in Shelley's case, and collateral warranties, abolished.
Section 47-5. - Requirements re conveyances of land. Conveyance pursuant to power of attorney.
Section 47-5a. - Persons before whom acknowledgment may be made.
Section 47-6. - Witnessing and acknowledgment of deeds of corporations and voluntary associations.
Section 47-6b. - Conveyances to nonprofit land-holding organizations.
Section 47-7. - Conveyances and releases executed outside this state.
Section 47-8. - Release of mortgage or lien in favor of state.
Section 47-9. - Deeds of railroad companies.
Section 47-11. - County clerk's certificates; recording in full not required.
Section 47-12. - Change in name or status of owner of real estate.
Section 47-12a. - Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate.
Section 47-13. - Conveyance of property acquired prior to change of name.
Section 47-14. - Joint tenancy; release or conveyance to other joint tenants.
Section 47-14a. - Joint tenancy in fee simple with survivorship.
Section 47-14b. - Conveyance or encumbrance by joint tenants.
Section 47-14c. - Conveyance by less than all joint tenants.
Section 47-14d. - Conveyance to one joint tenant by others.
Section 47-14e. - Mortgage or lease by joint tenants.
Section 47-14f. - Attachment of or lien on tenant's interest.
Section 47-14g. - Divorce or marriage dissolution of husband and wife joint tenants.
Section 47-14h. - Provisions applicable to joint tenancies with survivorship.
Section 47-14i. - Effect of death on contract by tenant to convey interest.
Section 47-14j. - Conveyance to effect change in interests among tenants.
Section 47-14k. - Applicability of statutes.
Section 47-15. - Certificate of taking land by appraisal to be recorded.
Section 47-16. - Lost deed of land in two or more towns, copy recorded.
Section 47-17. - Records of documents as notice of equitable rights.
Section 47-17a. - Private transfer fees.
Section 47-18. - Ownership of historic memorials.
Section 47-18a. - Notice of listing of historic structure on National Register of Historic Places.
Section 47-19. - Leases for more than one year.
Section 47-20. - Use of word “trustee” or “agent” in an instrument affecting real estate.
Section 47-21. - Deeds of land by persons ousted of possession, void.
Section 47-23. - Termination of parol leases for nonpayment of rent.
Section 47-24b. - Covenant that leased property is fit for habitation.
Section 47-24d. - Tenant's waiver of rights, when valid.
Section 47-25. - Right to light not gained by adverse possession.
Section 47-26. - No right to railroad, railway or canal land by adverse possession.
Section 47-28. - Admissibility of award of arbitrators as evidence.
Section 47-29. - Right of entry on land by assignee of reversion.
Section 47-30. - Ejectment. Set-off of defendant's improvements.
Section 47-31. - Action to settle title or claim interest in real or personal property.
Section 47-31a. - Petition to invalidate land record that was falsely filed or amended.
Section 47-32. - Several defendants may be joined.
Section 47-33. - Action to settle title to land belonging to estate of deceased person.
Section 47-33a. - Action on agreement to sell real estate.
Section 47-33b. - Marketable record title. Definitions.
Section 47-33c. - Chain of title for not less than forty years creates marketable record title.
Section 47-33d. - Interests to which title is subject.
Section 47-33e. - Prior interests void.
Section 47-33f. - Notice of claim filed within forty-year period.
Section 47-33g. - Contents of notice. Recording. Indexing.
Section 47-33h. - Excepted interests.
Section 47-33i. - Other statutes not affected.
Section 47-33j. - Notice not to be recorded to slander title. Damages.
Section 47-33k. - Construction.
Section 47-33l. - Forty-year period extended, when.
Section 47-33m. - Short title: Dormant Mineral Interests Act.
Section 47-33n. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Statement of policy.
Section 47-33o. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Definitions.
Section 47-33p. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Exclusions.
Section 47-33q. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Termination of dormant mineral interest.
Section 47-33r. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Preservation of mineral interest by notice.
Section 47-33s. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Effect of termination of mineral interest.
Section 47-33t. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Savings and transitional provisions.
Section 47-34. - Bounds between proprietors reestablished by Superior Court.
Section 47-34a. - Unlawful destruction, disturbance or removal of surveyor's marker or monument.
Section 47-35. - Tobacco poles deemed to be part of tobacco-curing structure.