usucaption

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

USUCAP'TION, noun [Latin usus, use, and capio, to take.] In the civil law, the same as prescription in the common law; the acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted and undisputed possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law.
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