prescriptive title
1prescriptive title — See title by prescription …
2prescriptive easement — see easement Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. prescriptive easement …
3Prescriptive — Pre*scrip tive, a. [L. praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal exception.] 1. (Law) Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long… …
4prescriptive — ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to the imposition of a rule or method. 2) (of a right, title, etc.) legally established by long usage. DERIVATIVES prescriptivism noun prescriptivist noun & adjective. ORIGIN Latin praescriptivus relating to a legal… …
5Prescriptive authority for psychologists movement — The Prescriptive authority for psychologists (RxP) movement is a political effort to give prescriptive authority to clinical psychologists, enabling them to prescribe psychotropic medications to treat mental and emotional disorders. Prior to RxP… …
6Prescriptive Barony — cotlandThe Scots have a quite distinct legal system within the United Kingdom. Historically, in the Kingdom of Scotland, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, as the Sovereign’s Minister in matters armorial is at once Herald and Judge. Scottish… …
7prescriptive — prescriptively, adv. prescriptiveness, n. /pri skrip tiv/, adj. 1. that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father. 2. depending on or arising from effective legal prescription, as a right or title… …
8prescriptive — pre•scrip•tive [[t]prɪˈskrɪp tɪv[/t]] adj. 1) that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions 2) cv based on or arising from long standing usage or custom 3) ling. gram. concerned with or involving the establishment of norms of correct and… …
9title by limitation — See adverse possession; title by prescription. title by prescription.. A title which may be acquired by use and time. The elements of such a title are open, visible, and continuous use under a claim of right, adverse to and with the knowledge of… …
10prescriptive easement — A right to use another s property which is not inconsistent with the owner s rights and which is acquired by a use, open and notorious, adverse and continuous for the statutory period (e.g. twenty years). To a certain extent, it resembles title… …
