Prescriptibility - Law Dictionary Search Results
prescribe
prescribe pre·scribed pre·scrib·ing vi 1 : to claim title or a right to something (as an easement) by prescription [a precarious possessor cannot against the owner] 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : to become unenforceable
Light
free from any obstruction exists at Common Law (see DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA) but by virtue of the (English) Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), uninterrupted enjoyment of light for twenty years--commonly called 'ancient
Highways
(not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the
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Water and watercourse
to another to take water is not a profit a prendre and is not, apparently, a subject of prescription, but it may be acquired by custom or usage. See Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Customs and Usages,' and Gateward's
Usage
as different from custom as there is no usage through inheritance though a right can be acquired by prescription. 'Usage in its most extensive meaning, includes both custom and prescription, but in its narrower significance, it refers
Shall
slippery semantics in a rule is not decisive and the context of the statute, the purpose of the prescription, the public injury in the event of neglect of the rule and the conspectus of circumstances bearing on
Petty-bag Office
Clergy, 5th Edn., 467. The right to sit in a particular pew in the church arises either from prescription, as appurtenant to a messuage--but not to land, Philipps v. Halliday, 1891 AC 228, or from a faculty
Medicinal preparation
Medicinal preparation, includes all drugs which are a remedy or prescription prepared for internal or external use of human beings or animals and all substances intended to be used
Maills and duties
action to enforce payment of rents: assignation of M. and D., commonly known as assignation of rents and prescription of M. and D. The years of prescription only begin to run when the tenant leaves, and the
Time
see s. 230 of that Act. And see FRACTION OF A DAY; LIMITATION OF ACTION OR PROSECUTION; MONTH; PRESCRIPTION; REASONABLE TIME. Time Bargains.--Contracts for the sale of a certain amount of stock at a certain price at
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