Roman Law. [a. OF. usucaption, -cion, or med.L. ūsūcaptiōn-, ad. L. ūsū-capiōn- USUCAPION.] = USUCAPION.

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1656.  Blount, Usucaption (usucaptio), prescription or long possession or the attaining a thing thereby.

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1728.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v., Some make a Difference between Prescription and Usucaption, maintaining that the latter is only used with regard to Moveables, and the former with regard to Immoveables.

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1760.  trans. Vattel’s Law of Nations, II. xi. 166. Usucaption is the acquisition of domain founded on a long possession, uninterrupted and undisputed.

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1826.  G. Spence, Orig. Laws Mod. Europe, p. xvii. Modes of acquiring property or ownership in individual things: or usucaption and prescription.

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1853.  Whewell, Grotius, I. 276. The right of usucaption, by which a thing long used becomes the property of the possessor.

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1874.  Motley, Barneveld, I. 283. Rather by usucaption than usurpation, Holland had … come to consider herself … the Republic itself.

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  attrib.  1871.  Poste, Gaius, IV. 501. Possession,… which we will call usucaption-possession.

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