Short answer. Minors can acquire property or rights through prescription — being a minor is not a bar. The law lets them do so either personally or through their parents, guardians, or legal representatives, the same as any other person capable of acquiring property through the other legal modes of acquisition.
What the law says
Persons who are capable of acquiring property or rights by the other legal modes may acquire the same by means of prescription. Minors and other incapacitated persons may acquire property or rights by prescription, either personally or through their parents, guardians or legal representatives.
Civil Code, Article 1107 — Who May Acquire by Prescription. Read the full provision →
The general rule ties prescription to capacity to acquire property
Article 1107 opens by linking prescription to the general capacity to acquire property: anyone capable of acquiring property or rights by the other legal modes — sale, donation, succession, and the like — may likewise acquire them by prescription. Prescription is not treated as a separate, more restrictive mode of acquisition than the others, but as one more way ownership can pass to someone who already has the capacity to hold it.
Minors are expressly included, not excluded
The article then addresses minors directly, and the answer runs the opposite way from what might be assumed. Minors and other incapacitated persons may acquire property or rights by prescription. Being under legal age does not stop prescription from running in a minor's favor or bar the minor from becoming the owner of property through it, unlike some other transactions that require full legal capacity.
How a minor exercises that right in practice
Article 1107 allows a minor to acquire by prescription either personally or through their parents, guardians or legal representatives. This means the minor does not need to act entirely on their own for prescription to work in their favor — a parent, guardian, or legal representative can carry out the acts that build the prescriptive claim on the minor's behalf, standing in for the minor for that purpose.
What this settles, and what it does not
This article confirms that minority is not, by itself, a bar to acquiring ownership through prescription. It does not, however, spell out the specific periods, kinds of possession, or other conditions that must be met for a prescriptive claim to succeed — those requirements are governed by other provisions, and simply being a minor with possession of property does not automatically establish ownership on its own. The reverse also holds: under Article 1108, prescription can run against a minor too, provided the minor has a parent, guardian, or other legal representative — meaning someone else could acquire the minor's own property by prescription in the same way the minor could acquire another's. If that happens because the representative was negligent, Article 1108 gives the minor a right to claim damages from that representative for letting the prescription run.