Civil Code (Cap. 16)
Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 462
462. (1) In order to acquire an easement by prescription,
possession for a period of not less than thirty years is necessary.
(2) If the servient tenement is subject to entail, or belongs to a
church or any other pious institution, the prescriptive period is
forty years.
(3) In the cases referred to in this article, the person pleading
prescription is not bound to produce a title, and no plea on the
ground of bad faith can be set up against him.
Prescription with
regard to
affirmative or
negative
easements.
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