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Ancient Lights

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Windows or openings which have remained in the same place and condition twenty years or more.

5 Har. & J. (Md.) 477; 12 Mass. 157, 220.

In England. A right to unobstructed light and air through such openings is secured by mere user. In the United States. Such right Is not acquired without an express grant, in most of the states.

2 Washb. Real Prop. 62, 63; 3 Kent, Comm. 446, note. See 11 Md. 1.

See "Air."

See Air.