usucaptv.
/ˈjuːzjuːkapt/ Roman Law.
transitive. To acquire ownership of or title to (a property, etc.) by usucaption. Also absol.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (transitive)] > acquire title by use
usucapt1880
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 103 A usufructuary cannot usucapt.
1886 J. Muirhead in Encycl. Brit. XX. 692/2 Upon him who had usucapted by possession the greater part of a deceased person's estate.
Derivatives
usuˈcaptable adj. (also usu'captible) capable of being held by usucaption.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [adjective] > acquisition of title by use
usucapionary1880
usucaptable1880
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 582 While the land was not usucaptable,..it was..capable of transfer by tradition.
1886 J. Muirhead in Encycl. Brit. XX. 690/2 Any citizen..holding movables as his own, provided they were usucaptible.
usuˈcaptor n. = usucapient n.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > acquisition of title by long use > one who
customer1440
usucapient1875
usucaptor1880
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 91 Such usucapions may be revoked, and the heir recover from the usucaptor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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