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Baron

that of a knight or baronet. In the Salic Law it signifies free-born. The present barons are-(1) By prescription; for that they and their ancestors have immemorially sat in the Upper House.(2) Barons by patent, having obtained

Appurtenances

Fry. (LJ). A right of common 'appurtenant' must be the subject of a grant, express or implied by prescription; 'appendant,' is a right by common law incident to certain grants made before the Statute 'Quia Emptores' 1290

Appendant

in a church to a house, etc. It differs from appurtenance, in that appendant must ever be by prescription, i.e., a personal usage for a considerable time, while an appurtenance may be created at this day, for

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Adjoining owner

N. 186; but only obtains a right to support for buildings by grant, express or implied, or by prescription (20 years); see Angus v. Dalton, (1881) 6 App. Cas. 740. By the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act,

Acquittal contracts

Acquittal contracts, a discharge from an obligation, which is either by deed, prescription, or tenure, Co. Litt. 100 a.

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

A tempore cujus contrarii memoria nonexistet

tempore cujus contrarii memoria nonexistet. (From time of which there exists not memory to the contrary.) [See (Enlgish) Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), s. 5]

tack

that of another esp. in order to satisfy the statutory time period for acquiring title to or a prescriptive easement in the property of a third party [successive adverse users in privity with prior adverse users can

Pharmacy

The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist

Quacksalver

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves or of the efficacy of his prescriptions a charlatan a quack a mountebank

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