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Maills and duties

action to enforce payment of rents: assignation of M. and D., commonly known as assignation of rents and prescription of M. and D. The years of prescription only begin to run when the tenant leaves, and the

Air

light and air. The nature and extent of the right to air (which is not a subject of prescription within the Prescription Act) is discussed by Fry, J., in Hall v. Lichfield Brewery Co., (1880) 49 LJ

nonprescription

able to be sold legally without a doctors prescription over the counter of medicinal drugs as Aspirin is a nonprescription antiinflammatory drug Opposite of prescription

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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

over the counter

able to be sold legally without a doctors prescription of medicinal drugs Contrasted with prescription

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

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).

Que estate

Que estate [quorum statum, Lat.], as much as to say, whose estate he has. Where prescriptive rights are claimed by reason of the continuous and immemorial enjoyment thereof by the claimant, a person seised

Peaceably

Peaceably, is not defined in any Act, it is a subject of some judicial pronouncement. The prescriptive right of an easement can be acquired only when the user is inter alia nec vi, that is

Nuisance

no a defence to an action for nuisance, Elliotson v. Feethan, (1835) s Bing NC 134. And no prescriptive rights can be acquired for a nuisance. It includes any act, omission, place, animal or thing which causes

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