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Defined in 8 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

Definitions from Case Law

From 347 U.S. 110 - Kern-Limerick, Inc. v. Scurlock · 1954Most cited · 451 citing opinions

the person to whom the taxable sale is made * * *.

United States Code

2 U.S.C. § 58A — in this section

“user” means any Senator, Officer of the Senate, Committee, office, or entity provided telephone equipment and services by the Sergeant at Arms.

2 U.S.C. § 58A — as used in this section

“user” means any Senator, Officer of the Senate, Committee, office, or entity provided copiers by the Sergeant at Arms.

18 U.S.C. § 2510 — as used in this chapter

“user” means any person or entity who—

(A) uses an electronic communication service; and

(B) is duly authorized by the provider of such service to engage in such use;

42 U.S.C. § 13271 — for the purposes of this subchapter

the term “user” means a person or entity that purchases or leases an electric motor vehicle.

42 U.S.C. § 2458B — as used in this section

the term “user” includes anyone who enters into an agreement with the Administration for use of all or a portion of a space vehicle, who owns or provides property to be flown on a space vehicle, or who employs a person to be flown on a space vehicle; and

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

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. Cowell.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Use; actual possession and enjoyment.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The enjoyment of a thing.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The actual exercise or enjoyment of any right or property. It is particularly used of franchises.

Adverse user. An adverse user is sack a use of the property as the owner himself would make, asking no permission, and disregarding all other claims to it, so far as they conflict with this use. Blanchard v. Moulton, 63 Me. 434 ; Murray v. Scribner, 74 Wis. 602, 43 N. W. 548; Ward v. Warren, 82 N. Y. 265.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

The actual enjoyment of property or a right. User de action: the pursuing or bringing an action.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

The exercise or enjoyment of any right or property. It is particularly used of franchises. User of a highway, long continued, establishes the public right of passage. User of corporate franchises shows acceptance of the charter. User is the act of using or enjoying any profit or benefit to be taken from or upon the land, or any easement to be enjoyed upon or over any land or water. And in law the ef Eect of such user (if continued for a period sufficiently long, and under circumstances which indicate the exercise of a right on the part of the person so using the land) is to establish a prescriptive claim ever after to enjoy the same profit or easement. Brown.