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Depending on state in most cases where a fence is vs where it should be can be settled its called adverse possession. Most states required the adjacent owner has to make his intentions open and known.
This is a good guide to the law.
To acquire title to property by adverse possession, the possession must be open to the world, hostile to the interests of the true owner, exclusive, and continuous for the statutory period.
In Missouri its 10 years so the neighbor has to make it known to you his intention to make said property his. then the clock is running for 10 years. At the end of ten years and you havent corrected it then he can purchase this strip of property through a resurvey and plat of lot.
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