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Prescription (Law) --- Immemorial usage --- Usucapio --- Acquisition of property --- Real property --- Adverse possession --- Land titles --- Limitation of actions --- Time immemorial (Law)

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In 1794 and 1799 Superintendent of Convicts Nicholas Devine was granted 210 acres on the edge of the current CBD of Sydney. After the demise of Governor Bligh (to whom he was closely allied) Devine reluctantly retired to his estate where, as an old man living alone, he was constantly beaten and robbed. An Irish convict named Bernard Rochford befriended the old man in 1825 and upon his death in 1830 forged a Will and seized control of the estate and proceeded to subdivide it and sell it off. Many of the purchasers (and others, including the Governor) knew Rochford was in no position to sell the

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Uses (Law) --- Agricultural laws and legislation --- Droit d'usage --- Forestry law and legislation --- Civil law --- Customary law --- Prescription (Law) --- Private law --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- France --- Droit rural --- History --- Histoire --- Immemorial usage --- Usucapio --- Acquisition of property --- Real property --- Adverse possession --- Land titles --- Limitation of actions --- Time immemorial (Law)

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Prescription is a major legal defence that bars civil actions on the claim after the expiry of a certain period of time. Despite its far-reaching practical effects on litigation and on society at large, and the fact that it is the subject matter of pervasive legal reforms in many countries, the law of prescription (limitation of actions) is rarely discussed, analysed and compared.00To meet this challenge, this book canvases in-depth the law of 15 selected jurisdictions (covering Europe, South Africa and the US jurisdictions) and extensively analyses in comparative perspective the elements of prescription (accrual of the cause of action, prescription periods, rules of suspension, renewal, extension, etc), their interrelations, and the policy considerations (including economic analysis). Topics also covered include the notions of?action?,?claim?, and?cause of action?, subjective and objective prescription, statute interpretation and judicial discretion. The book concludes with how the present law can be improved and where suitable harmonised. While its main focus is the prescription of tort claims, the analysis, comparison and conclusions are highly relevant to most civil actions.00'Prescription in Tort Law' is the result of a three-year research project lead by the European Group on Tort Law (EGTL) that brings together leading academics of the field.

Comparative law --- Tort and negligence --- Responsabilité délictuelle --- Prescription (droit) --- Droit comparé. --- Torts --- Prescription (Law) --- Comparative law. --- Responsabilité civile --- Droit comparé --- Prescription (Droit) --- Torts. --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Injuries (Law) --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Accident law --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Negligence --- Reasonable care (Law) --- Immemorial usage --- Usucapio --- Acquisition of property --- Real property --- Adverse possession --- Land titles --- Limitation of actions --- Time immemorial (Law) --- Responsabilité délictuelle --- Droit comparé.