My understanding of that type of "hävd", is that you need to have an official but incorrect deed of some sort, that remains uncontested by a true owner for 10 or 20 years.
Simply making uncontested use of the land is not enough.
I guess it is something that can happen quite easily in rural settings with very old property lines. Farmer 1 and 2 agree to some deal and a while later farmer 3 turns up and says "hey that's my land".
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I was thinking of adverse possession, for which the time limits are 20 years or even 10 years in some cases:
https://jdc-definitions.wikibase.wiki/wiki/Adverse_Possessio...
Original Swedish text: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/sven...
My understanding of that type of "hävd", is that you need to have an official but incorrect deed of some sort, that remains uncontested by a true owner for 10 or 20 years.
Simply making uncontested use of the land is not enough.
I guess it is something that can happen quite easily in rural settings with very old property lines. Farmer 1 and 2 agree to some deal and a while later farmer 3 turns up and says "hey that's my land".