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yoo-suh-KAP-shuhn
noun
ownership of a property as established or evidenced by long use
1840What is PropertyIt is the absolute, exclusive, autocratic domain of a man over a thing—a domain which begins by usucaption, is maintained by possession, and finally, by the aid of prescription, finds its sanction in the civil law; a domain which so identifies the man with the thing, that the proprietor can say, 'He who uses my field, virtually compels me to labor for him; therefore he owes me compensation.'1874The Life of John of BarneveldRather by usucaption than usurpation Holland had in many regards come to consider herself and be considered as the Republic itself.1903The Orations of Marcus Tullius CiceroThose things, again, I say have no existence, which are incapable of being touched or proved, but which can be perceived by the mind and understood; as if you were to define usucaption, guardianship, nationality, or relationship; all, things which have no body, but which nevertheless have a certain conformation plainly marked out and impressed upon the mind, which I call the notion of them.Labels: Cicero, John Lothrop Motley, Joseph-Pierre Proudhon
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