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Immemorial usage
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Prescription
Vict. c. 57); and (2) positive, which relates to incorporeal here-ditaments, and originated at the Common Law from immemorial or long usage only. Positive prescription has been greatly modified by the Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3
Copyhold
examining titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and
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Usage
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Way
sessions. Bridges are public highways. See BRIDGE. A private right of way may be claimed by prescription and immemorial usage; thus where the inhabitants of a particular hamlet, or the owners or occupiers of a particular close or … immemorially been used to cross a particular piece of land, a right of way is created by the immemorial usage, which supposes a grant. By the Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), s. 2,
Common Law
case with Acts of Parliament; but that it receives its binding powers, as a law, from long and immemorial usage, and universal reception throughout the realm. The authenticity of these customs, rules, and maxims rests entirely upon reception
Modus decimandi
Modus decimandi, a particular manner of tithing arising from immemorial usage, differing from the payment of one-tenth of the annual increase; being sometimes a pecuniary compensation, as two pence
Baron
by succession, not by inheritance; but it is rather thought that they sit in the Upper House by immemorial usage.
Market
etc. A market can only be set up by virtue of a royal grant, or by long and immemorial usage, which presupposes a grant. See FAIRS; and (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 167, the Public Health Act,
Public wharf
Public wharf, is one which is common to all the subjects, and, if it is claimed by immemorial usage, it is a public wharf, Dungarvan Guardians v. Mansfield, 1897 (1) IR 420; Kunchkey v. Redruth, 1904 (1)
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