Acquire
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TO ACQUIRE, descents, contracts. To make property one's own.
2. Title to property is acquired in two ways, by descent, (q.v.) and by
purchase (q.v.). Acquisition by purchase, is either by, 1. Escheat. 2.
Occupancy. 3. Prescription. 4. Forfeiture. 5. Alienation, which is either by
deed or by matter of record. Things which cannot be sold, cannot be
acquired.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.