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Jactus Lapilli

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In the civil law. The throwing down of a stone (of a structure being erected on land). One of the means whereby the true ovroer might assert his title, and interrupt the running of an adverse possession.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Throwing down a stone, a symbolic act to bar the acquisition of an adverse prescriptive right or title.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The throwing down of a stone. One of the modes, under the civll law, of interrupting prescription. Where one person was building on another's ground, and in this way acquiring a right by usucapto, the true owner challenged the intrusion and interrupted the prescriptive right by throwing down one of the stones of the building bsfore witnesses called for the purpose. Tray. Lat. Max.

Defined under Jactus in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

The throwing