User
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The actual exercise of a franchise or incorporeal hereditament. User of a corporate franchise is an acceptance thereof; or nonuser may be a cause for dissolution. An easement may be prescribed upon user continued for the required time adverse to the owner of the land. Nonuser with intent to abandon extinguishes a prescriptive easement. USER DE ACTION (Law Fr.) In old practice. The pursuing or bringing an action.
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