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acquisitive prescription
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possession
exercised by another (as a lessee) with the permission of or on behalf of the owner see also acquisitive prescription at prescription 2 : something controlled, occupied, or owned [personal s]
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title
: the title that derives from such an act [have a just title] NOTE: For the purposes of acquisitive prescription, the requirement of just title is satisfied by an act that would have been sufficient to transfer ownership
Purchase
in any lawful manner, other than by descent, or the mere act of law, and including escheat, occupancy, prescription, forfeiture, and alienation. See 2 Br. and Had. Com. 408 et seq. It is possession to which a … Purchase (fr. perquisitio, or conqu'stus, Lat., according to the feudists], in its popular sense, an acquisition of land, obtained by way of bargain and sale, for money or some other valuable consideration; in its
Acquiesce
arrears of maintenance or by gift or by a female's own skill or exertion or by purchase or prescription or in any manner whatsoever. Where at the commencement of the Act a female Hindu has a share … meaning. This would be so because of the language of the Explanation which makes sub-s. (1) applicable to acquisition of property by inheritance or devise or at a partition or in lieu of maintenance or arrears of
Ferry
for such carriage. It is a franchise, and can only be created by a grant from the Crown, prescription which presumes such a grant, or Act of Parliament; see Simpson v. Att.-Gen., 1904 AC 490. The owner … (1914) 3 KB 918. As to the duties of common ferrymen, see 1 Shower, 140. As to the acquisition of ferries by local authorities, see the (English) Ferries (Acquisition by Local Authorities) Act, 1919. It includes a
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