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Criticisms (Property · at 74-75 (2d Thomas ed. 1998) (citing An Act for) — "Regardless of how deeply the doctrine is engrained in our history, however, courts…

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  • La vigencia moderna de la prescripción adquisitiva es cuestionada pese a sus profundas raíces históricas.
  • Los tribunales han cuestionado si la doctrina sigue siendo viable.
  • También se duda de que la doctrina sea compatible con los ideales de una sociedad moderna, sofisticada, congestionada y pacífica.
  • Los comentaristas han identificado numerosas desventajas de la prescripción adquisitiva.
  • La doctrina puede infringir los derechos del propietario y causar daños o pérdida de la propiedad.
  • Puede disminuir el valor del predio sirviente.
  • Puede fomentar la explotación y el desarrollo de la tierra.
  • Puede generar animosidad entre vecinos e incertidumbre para el propietario.
  • Puede desalentar el uso compartido de la tierra, desperdiciar tiempo y recursos de vigilancia y crear oportunidades para apropiarse de ella.
  • La prescripción adquisitiva se critica como la apropiación de la propiedad privada ajena para uso privado, en tensión con la protección constitucional de la vida, la libertad y la propiedad.
  • El tribunal reconoce que su función es aplicar la ley, no crearla.
  • Aun así, aplica la doctrina al conflicto moderno con reservas frente a sus raíces antiguas y su fundamento arcaico.
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"Regardless of how deeply the doctrine is engrained in our history, however, courts have questioned “whether the concept of adverse possession is as viable as it once was, or whether the concept always squares with modern ideals in a sophisticated, congested, peaceful society.” Finley, 160 Cal.Rptr. at 427. Commentators have also opined that, along with the articulated benefits of adverse possession, numerous disadvantages exist including the “infringement of a landowner’s rights, a decrease in value of the servient estate, and the encouraged exploitation and development of land. In addition, they represent the generation of animosity between neighbors, a source of damages to land or loss of land ownership, and the creation of uncertainty for the landowner.” Ackerman, 31 Land & Water L.Rev. at 92; see also Stake, 89 Geo. L.J. at 2432, 2433 (listing also “diminish[ing] utility by discouraging owners from letting others use their land,” wasting the rightful owner’s time and resources to monitor his land, and “creat[ing] an opportunity to steal land” as other costs associated with adverse possession). In reality, “[a]dverse possession ‘[i]s nothing more than a person taking someone else’s private property for his own private use.’ It is hard to imagine a notion more in contravention of the ideals set forth in the U.S. Constitution protecting life, liberty and property.” Ackerman, 31 Land & Water L.Rev. at 94-95 (quoting 2 C.J.S. Adverse Possession § 2 (1972)). Although this Court duly recognizes its role as the judicial arm of government tasked with applying the law, rather than making law, it is not without an eyebrow raised at the ancient roots and arcane rationale of adverse possession that we apply the doctrine to this modern property dispute."

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