usucaptionn.
/ˌjuːzjᵿˈkapʃn/, /ˌjuːsjᵿˈkapʃn/, U.S. /ˌjuzəˈkæpʃ(ə)n/, /ˌjusəˈkæpʃ(ə)n/ Roman Law.attributive.1871 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis iv. 501 Possession,..which we will call usucaption-possession.
= usucapion n.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > acquisition of title by long use
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Usucaption (usucaptio), prescription or long possession or the attaining a thing thereby.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Some make a Difference between Prescription and Usucaption, maintaining that the latter is only used with regard to Moveables, and the former with regard to Immoveables.
1760 tr. E. de Vattel Law Nations ii. xi. 166 Usucaption is the acquisition of domain founded on a long possession, uninterrupted and undisputed.
1826 G. Spence Orig. Laws Mod. Europe p. xvii Modes of acquiring property or ownership in individual things: Of usucaption and prescription.
1853 W. Whewell tr. H. Grotius De Jure Belli I. 276 The right of usucaption, by which a thing long used becomes the property of the possessor.
1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. 283 Rather by usucaption than usurpation, Holland had..come to consider herself..the Republic itself.
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