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Easement

in an easement, the grantee need not execute the conveyance. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 65] (3) By prescription. Easements are extinguished pro tem by the union of the dominant and servient tenements in one owner and

Ferry

for such carriage. It is a franchise, and can only be created by a grant from the Crown, prescription which presumes such a grant, or Act of Parliament; see Simpson v. Att.-Gen., 1904 AC 490. The owner

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

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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

Damnum absque injuria

every one may lawfully erect a mill upon his own ground; though if I have a mill by prescription on my own land, and another erects a new mill, which draws away some portion of the stream

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

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

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

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

Damnum absque injuri'

every one may lawfully erect a mill upon his own ground; though if I have a mill by prescription on my own land, and another erects a new mill, which draws away some portion of the stream

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