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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 18

Accrual of right of action in case of present interests in land.

18.(1) Where the person bringing an action to recover land, or some person
through whom he claims, has been in possession thereof and has while entitled
thereto been dispossessed or discontinued his possession, the right of action
shall be deemed to have accrued on the date of the dispossession or
discontinuance.

(2) Where

(a)any person brings an action to recover any land of a deceased person,
whether under a will or on intestacy; and

(b)the deceased person

(i) was on the date of death in possession of the land or, in the case of a
rentcharge created by will or taking effect upon his death, in possession of
the land charged; and

(ii)was the last person entitled to the land to be in possession thereof;

(3) Where

(a)any person brings an action to recover land, being an estate or interest in
possession assured, otherwise than by will, to him or to some person through
whom he claims, by a person who, at the date when the assurance took effect

(i)was in possession of the land; or

(ii)was, in the case of a rentcharge created by the assurance, in possession
of the land charged; and

(b)no person has been in possession of the land by virtue of the assurance;

Accrual of right of action in case of future interests in land.

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