tacking

The term is applied especially to the process of establishing title to land by adverse possession, when the present occupant and claimant has not been in possession for the full statutory period, but adds or "tacks" to his own possession that of previous occupants under whom he claims. That doctrine which permits an adverse possessor to add his period of possession to that of a prior adverse possessor in order to establish a continuous possession for the statutory period. Deyrup v. Schmitt, 132 Vt. 423, 425, 321 A.2d 42, 44.

The term is also used in a number of other connections, as of possessions, disabilities, or items in accounts or other dealings. In these several cases the purpose of the proposed tacking is to avoid the bar of a statute of limitations.

See Davis v. Coblens, 174 U.S. 719, 19 S.Ct. 832, 43 L.Ed. 1147.

Tacking in application by motor carriers for certificates of public convenience and necessity is joinder of two or more separate grants of authority at a point common to both. Midwest Emery Freight System, Inc. v. U. S., D.C.I11., 295 F.Supp. 112, 115.

The uniting of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchaser from claiming a title to redeem or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeeming or discharging the other liens also, which are subsequent to his own title. The term is particularly applied to the action of a third mortgagee who, by buying the first lien and uniting it to his own, gets priority over the second mortgagee