jactus lapilli

jactus lapilli: /jaektas lapilay/ The throwing down of a stone. One of the modes, under the civil law, of interrupting prescription. Where one person was building on another's ground, and in this way acquiring a right by usucapio, the true owner challenged the intrusion and interrupted the prescriptive right by throwing down one of the stones of the building before witnesses called for the purpose

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jactus lapilli — /jaektas lapilay/ The throwing down of a stone. One of the modes, under the civil law, of interrupting prescription. Where one person was building on another s ground, and in this way acquiring a right by usucapio, the true owner challenged the… … Black's law dictionary
jactus lapilli — Throwing down a stone. Under the civil law this was an act which was symbolic of an assertion of right or title in land and was employed to bar the acquisition of a prescriptive right or title by adverse possession … Ballentine's law dictionary

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