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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Of Securities. The union of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchaser's claiming title to redeem or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeemin:g or discharging other liens, also which are subsequent, to his own title. Jeremy, Eq. Jur. bk.

1, c. 2, § 1, pp. 188-191; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 412.

The doctrine is not recognized in the United States.

37 Vt. 345.

Of Possession. The connecting of successive possessions by persons in privity, so as to make a continuous adverse possession.

80 Hun (N. Y.) 287.