Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for U-SU-CAP'TION
U-SU-CAP'TION, n. [L. usus, use, and capio, to take.]
In the civil law, the same as prescription in the common law; the acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted and undisputed possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law.
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