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Meanings of prescriptive right in English

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Usage of prescriptive right in English
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They have a prescriptive right to enter every garden in the village.
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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The philosopher has no prescriptive right to preempt the field of ethics.
A Handbook of Ethical Theory
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This prescriptive right was so generally recognised, that all parties were satisfied.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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In fact I've a kind of prescriptive right to the job.
The Man from the Clouds
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She has a prescriptive right to the society of the man who arrives.
American Notes
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If two centuries did not establish prescriptive right, how long a period would?
The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
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The mate has a prescriptive right to help stow away.
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
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They became inherited titles by prescriptive right in the second half of the 14th century.
The Irish Times
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It has remained there, gradually establishing a prescriptive right.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920
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Having had his own way for innumerable years, he had earned a prescriptive right to it.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
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Slavery occupies, by prescriptive right, the Presidential chair.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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Republicans still believed that as saviors of the Union they had a prescriptive right to the government.
The Cleveland Era: A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics
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His long possession of power had given him a kind of prescriptive right to possess it still.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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Nay, more, I insisted at once on my prescriptive right and on his patriotic obligation in the matter.
A Thief in the Night: A Book of Raffles' Adventures
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Daring, in the art of dressing, is the prescriptive right of the professional just as it is in writing.
Sister Teresa
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All the servants had a prescriptive right to go to this fair; and Griffith himself had never missed one.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 / A Magazine...
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