usucaption
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usucaption
acquisition of ownership by uninterrupted possession.Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006
USUCAPTION, civil law. The manner of acquiring property in things by the
lapse of time required by law.
2. It differs from prescription, which has the same sense, and means,
in addition, the manner of acquiring and losing, by the effect of time
regulated by law, all sorts of rights and actions. Merl. Repert. mot
Prescription, tom. xii. page 671; Ayl. Pand. 320; Wood's Inst. Civ. Law,
165; Lecons Elem. du Dr. Rom. Sec. 437; 1 Browne's Civ. Law, 264, n.;
vattel, ii. 2, c. 2, Sec. 140.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.