Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In civil law, the acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted and undisputed possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Roman Law) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as
prescription in common law.
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- noun The
acquisition ofright ortitle to an object by means of thepassage of time.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Prescription (a slight modification of the older usucaption) is the dispensing with evidence of title, and is acquisitive when it is the means of acquiring Ownership and extinctive (divestitive) when it bars a right of action.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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It is, therefore, either acquisitive or liberating, the former being frequently termed usucaption.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Ownership might further be acquired by usucaption (usucapio) and prescription for a long period.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Rather by usucaption than usurpation Holland had in many regards come to consider herself and be considered as the Republic itself.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Rather by usucaption than usurpation Holland had in many regards come to consider herself and be considered as the Republic itself.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Rather by usucaption than usurpation Holland had in many regards come to consider herself and be considered as the Republic itself.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Rather by usucaption than usurpation Holland had in many regards come to consider herself and be considered as the Republic itself.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610c-12 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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First, the Roman or quiritarian property in the soil, (commercium,) and its capability of mancipation, usucaption, and vindication; moreover, as an inseparable consequence of this, exemption from land-tax.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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We believe, according to Gaius, 43, that this usucaption was extended to the case where a thing had been acquired from a person not the real proprietor; and that according to the time prescribed, it gave to the possessor the Roman proprietorship.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The praetors changed the system of property by allowing a person, who had a thing in bonis, the right to recover before the prescribed term of usucaption had conferred absolute proprietorship.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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