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prescribe

title or a right to something (as an easement) by prescription [a precarious possessor cannot against the owner] 2 in the

Ancient lights

and upwards, See LIGHT; Gale or Goddard on Easements; and Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71). … twenty years and upwards, See LIGHT; Gale or Goddard on Easements; and Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c.

Peaceably

Act, it is a subject of some judicial pronouncement. The prescriptive right of an easement can be acquired only when the

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Prescription

Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. … some agreement in writing. (2) Claims to ways or 'other' easements or use of water are prima facie indefeasible after twenty

Air

the right to air (which is not a subject of prescription within the Prescription Act) is discussed by Fry, J., in … the enjoyment of air free and unpolluted, see Gale on Easements, and Goddard on Easements; but the claim to air is

Light

(see DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA) but by virtue of the (English) Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), uninterrupted … Co., (1927) 1 Ch 219. Consult Goddard or Gale on Easements.

Burial

burial in such a vault within the church, and such prescription implies that a faculty was originally obtained. The faculty, however, … an exclusive right of burial in a vault is an easement, and therefore cannot be granted by parol or by mere

Extinguishment

but for which an inchoate right would become established by prescription. (3) Extinguishment of copyhold. When a tenant conveyed to his … preserved and apportioned, 1 Bac. Ab. 628. (2) Extinguishment of Easement. By statute, release, non-user, unity of seisin, or alteration of

Immemorial usage

a practice which has existed time out of mind; custom; prescription, See MEMORY, TIME OF LEGAL. A phenomenon is said to

Profit a prendre

on Rights of Common, p. 194). See LAMMAS LANDS. A prescription in a que estate for a profit a prendre in … Welcome v. Upton, (1840) 6 M&W 536. Consult Gale on Easements, and Hall on Profits a Prende.

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