It is common for a legal system to allow a person, in certain circumstances, to gain ownership of land by possessing it for a period of time. This is certainly true of both Scotland and England, although what is precisely required for possession to be established may differ on particular points between the two. One point on which the two may differ is the effect of a unilateral permission to occupy that is given to someone currently occupying the land without any right to be there. This point has most recently been considered from the point of view of English law in Smith v Molyneaux [2016] UKPC 35, [2017] 1 P & CR 7. In this paper, that case and the issues it raises are considered from the point of view of Scots law. It is found that this point raises more general questions about the nature of the mental element of possession, the state of mind with which one must occupy the property in order to be considered a possessor.

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单方面许可和规定性获取：苏格兰的观点

法律制度通常允许一个人在某些情况下通过拥有土地一段时间来获得土地所有权。苏格兰和英格兰当然都是如此，尽管建立控球权的确切要求可能在两者之间的特定点上有所不同。两者可能不同的一点是，单方面允许占用的效果是给予目前占用该土地而无任何权利在那里的人。最近从英国法的角度考虑了这一点史密斯 v 莫利诺[2016] UKPC 35, [2017] 1 P & CR 7. 在本文中，从苏格兰法律的角度考虑了该案件及其提出的问题。人们发现，这一点引发了关于占有的心理因素的性质的更普遍的问题，即一个人必须以何种心态占有财产才能被视为占有者。