Lexpert
The property you think you're buying may not be all yours, at least under the Quebec Civil Code's law of acquisitive prescription. The Supreme Court of Canada confirmed this in a spring ruling, when a Quebec couple who bought a property with the understanding that it had parking space enough for several cars – and part of which a neighbour's son had been using for many years – had their appeal to recognize their title to the full space dismissed.
The Supreme Court's verdict: Because the neighbour's son had been using the parking space peacefully and continuously for at least 10 years, half of the parking space rightfully belonged to the neighbour.
Lexpert senior editor Elizabeth Raymer reports at www.lexpert.ca. Follow @Lexpert on Twitter.