The Strip You Have Been Mowing
NRS 11.150 — 5 years of continuous occupation and every tax paid, and land enclosed or cultivated
5 years, and the taxes. Adverse possession is not established in Nevada unless the land has been occupied and claimed continuously for 5 years, and the claimant and those before the claimant paid, or tendered, every state, county and municipal tax levied and assessed against the land for that period.
Where the claim rests on no deed, judgment or other written instrument, land counts as possessed and occupied in two cases only: where it has been protected by a substantial enclosure, or where it has been usually cultivated or improved.
No action or defense founded on title to land succeeds unless the person bringing it, or someone in that person's chain of title, was seized or possessed of the land within 5 years before the act complained of.
Possession under a written instrument, the effect of a landlord and tenant relationship, and prescriptive easements are in other sections not reproduced here. Whether a particular use ripened into title is a question for a court and a licensed Nevada attorney.
Sources for this section (3)
- NRS 11.150 — Additional requirements for adverse possession: Occupation continuously for 5 years; payment of taxes
- NRS 11.140 — What constitutes adverse possession under claim of title not founded on written instrument
- NRS 11.070 — No cause of action effectual unless party or predecessor seized or possessed within 5 years
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Nevada attorney.