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prescription

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 … prescription [partly from Middle French prescription establishment of a claim, from Late Latin praescription- praescriptio, from Latin, act of

Easement

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Way

s. 2, it is enacted that no claim by custom, prescription, or grant, to any way or other easement, or to any watercourse or the use of any water which has been enjoyed twenty years without interruption, … burden on particular persons by reason of their tenure; and if the inhabitants of a township, bound by prescription to repair, be expressly exempted by an Act of Parliament from repairing the rods to be made within

Water and watercourse

usage. See Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Customs and Usages,' and Gateward's case, (1607) 6 Rep 59. So, also, a prescriptive right to a watercourse is not lost by unity of possession (see EASEMENT) because the right begins ex

hostile

incompatible with the interests of a property owner [a use] see also adverse possession at possession easement by prescription at easement, prescription b : unwelcome by or contrary to the interests of corporate stockholders or management [a

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

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).

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