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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

civil law, is time, and under the conditions rethe privilege, pre-eminence, or ad- gulated by law. For the law relating vantage which one person has over ere to prescription in that state, see another; thus a person vested with Code, art.

3420 to 3521.

For the an office, is entitled to all the rights, difference between the meaning of privileges, prerogatives, &c. which the term prescription as understood belong to it. ae by the common law, and the same