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Tack

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).

Treatment

deterioration of the disease. The expression connotes a remedial measure either to cure or to prevent deterioration. Hence, prescription of pair of spectacles by eye specialist would be treatment, Himanshu Sekhar Nandy v. D.M. Balasore, (1976) 42

Tree

of the owner of the tree, Lemmon v. Webb, 1895 AC 1. No right can be acquired by prescription for trees to overhang: per Lord Macnaghten, ibid.; and an action lies for damage to crops by overhanging

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Turbary

is taken[, the liberty of digging turf upon another man's ground. It may be either by grant or prescription, and either appurtenant or in gross. It can be appurtenant only to a house, and can only be

Usucapio

Usucapio, the enjoying, by continuance of time, a long possession or prescription; property acquired by use or possession, Civ. Law. See LIMITATION.

Vraic

the Crown, or by such long and undisturbed enjoyment of it as to give him a title by prescription.

Warren

all other persons from hunting and taking them. It must be derived from a royal grant, or from prescription, which supposes such a grant, Williams on Rights of Common, p. 238. See Earl Beauchamp v. Winn, (1873)

Whales

be vested in the lord of a manor or other subject by grant from the Crown, or by prescription, Williams on Commons, p. 292. The whaling industry is regulated by the (English) Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act, 1934

Esquire

of knights and their eldest sons in like successiorr. (III) The chiefs of ancient families are esquires by prescription. (IV) Esquires by creation or office. Such are the heralds and serjeants-at-arms, and some others, who are constituted

Essendi quietum de tolonio

quit of toll; it lies for citizens and burgesses of any city or town, who, by charter or prescription, ought to be exempted from toll, where the same is exacted of them, Reg. Brev. 258.

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