Prescription
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prescription · Limitation · praescriptio · right of prescription · the Prescription Act
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The legal doctrine of prescription (acquiring a right through long possession), central to the Portuguese defense and repeatedly refuted as applicable to the sea and trade.
The last defense of injustice is usually a claim or plea based on prescription or on custom.
For it is impossible to acquire by usucaption or prescription things which cannot become property, that is, which are not susceptible of possession or of quasi-possession, and which cannot be alienated.
It was during the reign of King John, in the year of our Lord 1477, at the time of the wars in Africa, that the Portuguese began to push their discoveries first into the more distant parts of the Ocean.
Institutes of Roman Law
The doctrine by which a creditor's right to sue is eventually forfeited through negligence, distinguished from but related to Mora.
The date of Mora must not be identified with that of the Nativity of an action (actio nata), an important date, as we shall see, in the doctrine of Limitation or Prescription of which it is the starting-point, a starting-point that may be antecedent to Mora Mora generally cannot precede an interpellation or demand of payment:
The Law of Torts
The legal doctrine by which long, uninterrupted enjoyment of a right (such as light) confers a legal title to it.
The right to light, to begin with, is not a natural right incident to the ownership of windows, but an easement to which title must be shown by grant, express or implied, or by prescription at common law, or under the Prescription Act.