Interruptedly - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: interruptedlyInterruptive
Tending to interrupt interrupting...
Interrupt
Broken interrupted...
Interruptedly
With breaks or interruptions discontinuously...
Interrupter
One who or that which interrupts...
Interruption
Interruption, a term applied in Scots Law to the step requisite by law to stop the running of the period of limitation...
cause
cause 1 : something that brings about an effect or result [the negligent act which was the of the plaintiff's injury] NOTE: The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in this entry but-for cause : cause in fact in this entry cause in fact : a cause without which the result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause compare intervening cause and superseding cause in this entry di·rect cause : proximate cause in this entry ef·fi·cient in·ter·ven·ing cause : superseding cause in this entry intervening cause 1 : an independent cause that follows another cause in time in producing the result but does not interrupt the chain of causation if foreseeable called also supervening cause compare concurrent cause and superseding cause in this entry 2 : super...
Way
Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...
disturbance
disturbance : an interruption of peace or order ;specif : an interruption of the quiet enjoyment of one's property ...
prescription
prescription [partly from Middle French prescription establishment of a claim, from Late Latin praescription- praescriptio, from Latin, act of writing at the beginning, order, from praescribere to write at the beginning, dictate, order; partly from Latin praescription- praescriptio order] 1 : acquisition of an interest (as an easement) in real property that is usually less than a fee by long-term, continuous, open, and hostile use and possession as determined by the law of a jurisdiction [gained title by ] see also easement by prescription at easement compare adverse possession at possession 2 in the civil law of Louisiana a : the running of a period of time set by law after which a right is unenforceable in Louisiana courts but may be enforced in another state forum [an interruption of ] [by the of ten years] ;also : the bar to an action that results from prescription see also peremptory exception compare peremption b : the creation of a right by the running of a period of time...
Prescription
Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. It is known in the Roman Law as usucapio.Title by prescription arises from a long-continued and uninterrupted possession of property, and is thus defined by Sir Edward Coke (Co. Litt. 113 b), Pr'scriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substantiam capiens ab authoritatelegis. (Prescription is a title taking his substance of use and time allowed by the law.)Every species of prescription, by which property is acquired or lost, is founded on the presumption that he who has had a quiet and uninterrupted possession of anything for a long period of years is supposed to have a just right, without which he would not have been suffered to continue in the enjoyment of it. For a long possession may be considered as a better title than can commonly be produced, as it supposes an acquiescence in all other claimants; and that acquiescence also supposes some reason for which the claim was foreborne, 1 Cruise's Dig., tit. X...
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