Prescription
3 definitions found for this term.
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The doctrine of land law under which persons secure an interest in land by acts of user or the lapse of time.
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Prescriptive easement, that is, one arising through long use, not through specific grant.
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The process by which sovereignty over territory is transferred from one state to another as a result of adverse effective occupation of the territory by the latter.