Alabama prescriptive easement law

Ala. Code § 6-5-200; common law prescription

What actually decides a claim here

• •Twenty years of adverse use is the general prescriptive period.
• •Ten years applies to adverse possession with color of title and payment of taxes.
• •Land owned by the state or a municipality generally cannot be taken by prescription.

Related terms

General educational reference only. Prescription periods and their exceptions change, and several states set the period by case law rather than by statute. Read the linked official code and consult a licensed attorney in that state before relying on any of it.