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A tempore cujus contrarii memoria nonexistet
tempore cujus contrarii memoria nonexistet. (From time of which there exists not memory to the contrary.) [See (Enlgish) Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), s. 5]
Acquiesce
arrears of maintenance or by gift or by a female's own skill or exertion or by purchase or prescription or in any manner whatsoever. Where at the commencement of the Act a female Hindu has a share
Acquittal contracts
Acquittal contracts, a discharge from an obligation, which is either by deed, prescription, or tenure, Co. Litt. 100 a.
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Adjoining owner
N. 186; but only obtains a right to support for buildings by grant, express or implied, or by prescription (20 years); see Angus v. Dalton, (1881) 6 App. Cas. 740. By the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act,
Ancient lights
than by consent or permission for twenty years and upwards, See LIGHT; Gale or Goddard on Easements; and Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71).
Appendant
in a church to a house, etc. It differs from appurtenance, in that appendant must ever be by prescription, i.e., a personal usage for a considerable time, while an appurtenance may be created at this day, for
Appurtenances
Fry. (LJ). A right of common 'appurtenant' must be the subject of a grant, express or implied by prescription; 'appendant,' is a right by common law incident to certain grants made before the Statute 'Quia Emptores' 1290
Baron
that of a knight or baronet. In the Salic Law it signifies free-born. The present barons are-(1) By prescription; for that they and their ancestors have immemorially sat in the Upper House.(2) Barons by patent, having obtained
Borough Courts
Borough Courts, private and limited tribunals, held by prescription, charter, or Act of Parliament, in particular districts for the convenience of the inhabitants, that they may prosecute
Burial
in a parish, and ought to have separate burial in such a vault within the church, and such prescription implies that a faculty was originally obtained. The faculty, however, fails when the family cease to be parishioners.
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