prescriptive right

The members of the corps had the prescriptive right to choose the regiment to which they would be attached.

Where applicants' supporting evidence shows 20 years of previous use, the Trust will grant a free prescriptive right.

Burke believed in prescriptive rights and that those rights were "God-given".

If the relation were achieved it would give him no prescriptive right to bully me; and we were still in very early anticipation of that.

In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

We have therefore waived legal fees until April 2006, charging only a £10 administration fee to complete the prescriptive right."

The defendant claimed that he held a prescriptive right to leave an unlimited number of cars on his neighbour's land, by way of such a right having existed for some fifty years previously.

Mr Greenhalf responded that he had a prescriptive right to store vehicles on the strip, as it had been used for such purposes for some fifty years prior to the action.

There are other rights California observes, such as prescriptive rights and federal reserved rights, but riparian and prior appropriation rights are the two prominent types of rights in the state.

These landholders under the previous system had started, for the most part, as collectors of the revenues, and gradually acquired certain prescriptive rights as quasi-proprietors of the estates entrusted to them by the government.

However, if this practice has persisted for more than twelve years it will have become what is known as a prescriptive right of way, and you will inherit it and not be able to do anything about it.

Girls from the upper classes were brought up to believe 'that they were born with a prescriptive right to their social advantages, their graceful culture' Hopkins stands very much as representative of the new-style purity feminist.

He had established such a long prescriptive right to this deportment (his son's inheritance from his mother) that I several times knew both Caddy and her husband to be melted to tears by these affectionate self-sacrifices.

Craig argues that Strachan "believed in an ordered society, an established church, the prerogative of the crown, and prescriptive rights; he did not believe that the voice of the people was the voice of God."

He enjoys all the rights resulting from the ownership and the possession of the benefice, and, in particular, it is from this moment that the time necessary for a prescriptive right to the benefice counts.

The Court of King's Bench likewise ruled in 1338 that Henry Percy's woodward might carry a bow and arrows in the woods of his manor of Seamer, by prescriptive right.

Now he presents his Problemata (problems): "Abraham has gained a prescriptive right to be a great man, so that what he does is great and when another does the same thing it is a sin.

These were firstly the collective heritage of the clan, known as their duthchas which was their prescriptive right to settle in the territories in which the chiefs and leading gentry of the clan customarily provided protection.

However, Scott claimed prescriptive rights to the McMurdo Sound area, describing it as his own "field of work", and Shackleton's use of the area as a base was in breach of an undertaking not to do so.

In Shorey v. Gorrell, a case decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1783 held that, "without long usage sufficient to confer a prescriptive right, there is no legal basis for preventing newcomers from obstructing a stream."

There are twenty towns in England and Wales that were recognised as cities by "ancient prescriptive right"; none of these communities had been formally declared a city, but they had all used the title since "time immemorial", that is, prior to 3 September 1189.

A General Register of Sasines was set up by Statute in 1617, with entry in the Register giving the prescriptive right (right by normal or correct usage), after so many years, to the "caput" or essence of the Barony.

These loopholes remain despite the concern of some judges such as Mr Justice Boreham, who once said in judgment 'I know a little about life and even if[the accused]had had intercourse with the girl before, he does not have the prescriptive right to it thereafter.

In the US, prescriptive rights have been granted to appropriately trained psychologists only in the states of New Mexico and Louisiana, with some limited prescriptive rights in Indiana and the US territory of Guam.

This exception was found in the person of a scholar, who, although no relation, bore the same Christian and surname as myself; - a circumstance, in fact, little remarkable; for, notwithstanding a noble descent, mine was one of those everyday appellations which seem, by prescriptive right, to have been, time out of mind, the common property of the mob.