Stale - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: stalestale
stale : impaired in legal effect or force by reason of not being used, acted upon, or demanded in a timely fashion [the search warrant was invalid because it was based on information] [a claim] ...
Stale
Stale, larceny, Ang.-Sax....
Joe Miller
A jest book a stale jest a worn out joke...
new made
Fresh Opposite of stale...
Platitude
The quality or state of being flat thin or insipid flat commonness triteness staleness of ideas of language...
Platitudinarian
One addicted to uttering platitudes or stale and insipid truisms...
Prescription
Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. It is known in the Roman Law as usucapio.Title by prescription arises from a long-continued and uninterrupted possession of property, and is thus defined by Sir Edward Coke (Co. Litt. 113 b), Pr'scriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substantiam capiens ab authoritatelegis. (Prescription is a title taking his substance of use and time allowed by the law.)Every species of prescription, by which property is acquired or lost, is founded on the presumption that he who has had a quiet and uninterrupted possession of anything for a long period of years is supposed to have a just right, without which he would not have been suffered to continue in the enjoyment of it. For a long possession may be considered as a better title than can commonly be produced, as it supposes an acquiescence in all other claimants; and that acquiescence also supposes some reason for which the claim was foreborne, 1 Cruise's Dig., tit. X...
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