Interruption
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The occurrence of some act or fact, during the period of prescription, which is sufficient to arrest the running of thestatute of limitations. Itis said to be either “natural” or “civil,” the former being caused by the act of the party; the lat- Interruption of the possession is where the right is not enjoved orexercised continuously; interruption of the right is where the person haying or claiming the right ceases the exerciseof it in such amanner a5 to show that he dees not claim to be entitled to exercise it. In Seotch law. ‘The true proprietor’s claiming his right during the course of preseviption.
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