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acquisitive prescription

acquisitive prescription see prescription

prescription of nonuse

prescription of nonuse see prescription

Recommendation and prescription

Recommendation and prescription, there is a basic distinction between recommendation and pres-cription of a text book. When a text book is

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Prescription, Corporations by

Prescription, Corporations by, those which have existed beyond the memory of man, and therefore are looked upon in law

easement by prescription

easement by prescription see easement

Way

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

easement

and adverse use of another's land for 20 years or for a period set by statute called also prescriptive easement easement in gross : an easement that is a personal right of its holder to a use

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

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

possession

method of acquiring title by such possession see also hostile possession and notorious possession in this entry compare prescription civil possession in the civil law of Louisiana : possession that exists by virtue of an intent to

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