Hire-Purchase Act

14. Adverse possession

Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force

14. Adverse possession

(1)Where an owner institutes a suit to enforce a right to recover possession of goods from a hirer and proves that, before the institution of the suit and after the right to recover possession of the goods accrued, he made a request in writing to the hirer to surrender the goods, the hirer’s possession of the goods shall, for the purpose of the owner’s claim to recover possession thereof, be deemed to be adverse to the owner.

(2)Nothing in this section affects a claim for damages for conversion.

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Source: Kenya Law