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Definition :

Tack, a lease or contract of location; also an addition, supplement; also cattle taken in by a tenant on agistment.

To add one's own period of land possession to a prior possessor's period to establish continuous adverse possession for statutory period, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1465.

Means to combine (a use, possession or period of time) with that of another especially in order to satisfy the statutory time period for acquiring title to or a prescriptive easement in the property of a third party, Hall v. Kerlee, 461 S.E. 2d 911 (1995).