So, even after rereading your statement, it still reads that you agree with Sacajaweau - then you add that imbecilic part about "if the kid mows the lawn for 7 years, he'd own the property".
Really? Maybe you need to correct your original response - or just go fishing when you feel that you need to comment.
Agree with Sacajaweau there? I agreed with the technicality and dismissed it in the practical. Seems pretty clear.
Imbecilic? You aren’t familiar with common law “adverse possession” - and you put quotations around your own misunderstanding and attributed them to me, not what I posted. In this case, the right would fall to the person who paid for the mowing, not the kid - though the term of “adverse possession” is 21 years, not 7.
“In order to establish the necessary twenty-one year period, several successive periods of possession by different persons may be “tacked” or added to each other, provided that privity exists between the successive occupants. This means that the successive occupants have to be connected by contract, estate or blood.”
So if the owner of the next door property, or successive owners collectively take care of a portion of their neighbor’s lawn over that time, then can take possession of it. The time varies from state to state.
Calm down and quit digging.
Cheers.