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USUCAPIO, or USUCAPTIO Definition & Legal Meaning

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A term of Roman law used to denote a mode of ac- quisition of property. It corresponds very nearly to the term “prescription.” But the prescription of Roman law differed from that of the English law, in this: that no mala fide possessor (

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