User

The exercise or enjoyment of any right or property. It is particularly used of franchises. User of a highway, long continued, establishes the public right of passage. User of corporate franchises shows acceptance of the charter. User is the act of using or enjoying any profit or benefit to be taken from or upon the land, or any easement to be enjoyed upon or over any land or water. And in law the ef Eect of such user (if continued for a period sufficiently long, and under circumstances which indicate the exercise of a right on the part of the person so using the land) is to establish a prescriptive claim ever after to enjoy the same profit or easement.

Brown.