Title 47 — Property
52 chapters · 670 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-01 Title by occupancy
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Occupancy for any period confers a title sufficient against all except the state and those who have title by prescription, accession, transfer, will, or succession.
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-02 Title by prescription - Occupancy required
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Occupancy for the period prescribed by any law of this state as sufficient to bar an action for the recovery of the property confers a title thereto, denominated a title by prescription, which is sufficient against all.
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-03 Title to real property - Adverse possession
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A title to real property, vested in any person who has been or hereafter shall be, either alone or including those under whom that person claims, in the actual open adverse and undisputed possession of the land under such title for a period of ten years and who, either alone or i…
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-04 Fixtures - When tenant may remove
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When a person affixes that person's property to the land of another without an agreement permitting that person to remove it, the thing affixed belongs to the owner of the land, unless the owner of the land chooses to require the former to remove it. A tenant may remove from the …
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-04.1 Mobile home storm shelters - Placement and transfer of ownership
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1. Upon approval of the mobile home park owner, the owner of a mobile home located in the park may construct a storm shelter in the mobile home park. The approval must be in writing and must include the type, location, and use of the shelter, and an agreement between the park own…
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-05 Riparian accretions
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Where from natural causes land forms by imperceptible degrees upon the bank of a river or stream, navigable or not navigable, either by accumulation of material or by the recession of the stream, such land belongs to the owner of the bank, subject to any existing right of way ove…
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-06 Avulsion - Title - Reclamation by original owner - Limitations
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If a river or stream, navigable or not navigable, carries away by sudden violence a considerable and distinguishable part of a bank and bears it to the opposite bank or to another part of the same bank, the owner of the part carried away may reclaim it within a year after the own…
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-07 Ancient streambed taken by owners of new course as indemnity
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If a stream, navigable or not navigable, forms a new course abandoning its ancient bed, the owners of the land newly occupied take by way of indemnity the ancient bed abandoned, each in proportion to the land of which the owner has been deprived.
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-08 Islands and relicted lands in navigable streams belong to state
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Islands and accumulations of land formed in the beds of streams which are navigable belong to the state, if there is no title or prescription to the contrary. The control and management, including the power to execute surface and mineral leases, of islands, relictions, and accumu…
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-09 Islands and relicted land in non-navigable streams
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An island or accumulation of land formed in a stream which is not navigable belongs to the owner of the shore on that side where the island or accumulation is formed, or if not formed on one side only, to the owners of the shore on the two sides, divided by an imaginary line draw…
N.D.C.C. § 47-06-10 Island formed by dividing stream - Title
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If a stream, navigable or not navigable, in forming itself a new arm divides itself and surrounds land belonging to the owner of the shore and thereby forms an island, the island belongs to such owner.