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Could a lawyer (preferably from NC) chime in about real estate law and if there's something like a "statute of limitations"? Would adverse possession (or something like it) in effect wipe away any crime committed in coming to possess a piece of land?

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They are two separate legal issues: responsibility for a criminal offense and rightful title to a particular piece of real property.

One way of thinking about the difference is that one can be inherited and the other can't [currently]. In legal parlance, criminal v civil tort.

I don't think the law was as much of a concern as prominent people's reputations.

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