imprescriptible law
1imprescriptible — im·pre·scrip·ti·ble /ˌim prē skrip tə bəl/ adj: not subject to prescription: inalienable Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. impre …
2imprescriptible obligations — in the Scots law of prescription and limitation, certain rights and obligations cannot be affected by the passage of time: any real right of ownership of land, the right in land of the lessee under a recorded lease; any right to recover property… …
3imprescriptible — [im΄pri skrip′tə bəl] adj. [Fr: see IN 2 & PRESCRIPTIBLE] 1. that cannot rightfully be taken away, lost, or revoked; inviolable 2. Law not subject to PRESCRIPTION (n. 5) imprescriptibly adv …
4imprescriptible — imprescriptibility, n. imprescriptibly, adv. /im pri skrip teuh beuhl/, adj. Law. not subject to prescription. [1555 65; < ML imprescriptibilis. See IM 2, PRESCRIPTIBLE] * * * …
5imprescriptible — im·pre·scrip·ti·ble || ‚ɪmprɪ skrɪptÉ™bl adj. cannot be legally taken away (Law) …
6imprescriptible — [ˌɪmprɪ skrɪptɪb(ə)l] adjective Law (of rights) unable to be taken away by prescription or by lapse of time. Origin C16: from med. L. imprescriptibilis …
7imprescriptible — adj. Law (of rights) that cannot be taken away by prescription or lapse of time. Etymology: med.L imprescriptibilis (as IN (1), PRESCRIBE) …
8Moral rights (copyright law) — Intellectual property law Primary rights Copyright · authors rights  …
9natural law — a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society. Cf. positive law. [1350 1400; ME] * * * In jurisprudence and political philosophy, a system of right or justice… …
10prescription — pre·scrip·tion /pri skrip shən/ n [partly from Middle French prescription establishment of a claim, from Late Latin praescription praescriptio, from Latin, act of writing at the beginning, order, from praescribere to write at the beginning,… …
