1-40. Twenty years adverse possession.
No action for the recovery or possession of real property, or the issues and profits thereof, shall be maintained when the person in possession thereof, or defendant in the action, or those under whom he claims, has possessed the property under known and visible lines and boundaries adversely to all other persons for 20 years; and such possession so held gives a title in fee to the possessor, in such property, against all persons not under disability. (C.C.P., s. 23; Code, s. 144; Rev., s. 384; C.S., s. 430.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 4 - Limitations, Real Property.
§ 1-36 - Title presumed out of State.
§ 1-37 - Such possession valid against claimants under State.
§ 1-38 - Seven years' possession under color of title.
§ 1-39 - Seizin within twenty years necessary.
§ 1-40 - Twenty years adverse possession.
§ 1-42 - Possession follows legal title; severance of surface and subsurface rights.
§ 1-42.1 - Certain ancient mineral claims extinguished in certain counties.
§ 1-43 - Tenant's possession is landlord's.
§ 1-44 - No title by possession of right-of-way.
§ 1-44.1 - Presumption of abandonment of railroad right-of-way.
§ 1-44.2 - Presumptive ownership of abandoned railroad easements.
§ 1-45 - No title by possession of public ways.
§ 1-45.1 - No adverse possession of property subject to public trust rights.