Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
prescription — The acquisition of an easement by adverse user under claim of right for the prescriptive period. The acquisition of incorporeal hereditaments by adverse user. Plaza v Flak, 7 NJ 215, 81 A2d 137, 27 ALR2d 324. A presumption of grant from long… … Ballentine's law dictionary
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