Imprescriptibility
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IMPRESCRIPTIBILITY. The state of being incapable of prescription.
2. A property which is held in trust is imprescriptible; that is the
trustee cannot acquire a title to it by prescription; nor can the borrower
of a thing get a right to it by any lapse of time, unless he claims an
adverse right to it during the time required by law.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.