The Federal Authorities
of the Swiss Confederation

Part Four: Property Law
Division One: Ownership
Title Nineteen: Land Ownership
Chapter One: Object, Acquisition and Loss of Land Ownership
< Art. 660b B. Acquisition / II. Types of acquisition / 4. Ground displacement / c. Redrawing of boundaries
> Art. 662 B. Acquisition / II. Types of acquisition / 5. Adverse possession / b. Extraordinary adverse possession

Art. 661

5. Adverse possession

a. Ordinary adverse possession

Where a person has been wrongly recorded in the land register as the owner of immovable property, his or her ownership may no longer be challenged if he or she has been in possession of it in good faith, uninterruptedly and without challenge for ten years.

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