usuˈcaption Roman Law.
(juːzjuːˈkæpʃən)
[a. OF. usucaption, -cion, or med.L. ūsūcaptiōn-, ad. L. ūsū-capiōn- usucapion.]
= usucapion.
| 1656 Blount, Usucaption (usucaptio), prescription or long possession or the attaining a thing thereby. 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. 1760 tr. Vattel's Law of Nations ii. xi. 166 Usucaption is the acquisition of domain founded on a long possession, uninterrupted and undisputed. 1826 G. Spence Orig. Laws Mod. Europe p. xvii, Modes of acquiring property or ownership in individual things: Of usucaption and prescription. 1853 Whewell Grotius I. 276 The right of usucaption, by which a thing long used becomes the property of the possessor. 1874 Motley Barneveld I. 283 Rather by usucaption than usurpation, Holland had..come to consider herself..the Republic itself. |
| attrib. 1871 Poste Gaius iv. 501 Possession,..which we will call usucaption-possession. |