PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHT

By SovConn | July 27, 2014

prescriptive right. A right obtained by prescription <after a nuisance has been continuously in existence for 20 years, a prescriptive right to continue it is acquired as an easement appurtenant to the land on which it exists>. [Cases: Nuisance 11–17. C.J.S. Nuisances §§ 77, 79–82.]

[Blacks Law 8th]

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