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Usucaption
The manner of acquiring property in things by the lapse of time required by law. Can be equated to adverse possession in many ways.
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.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
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