Prescription Act 1832

Prescription Act 1832 (c 71) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning English land law and particularly the method for acquiring an easement which was passed on August 1, 1832.

Common law prescription assumed continuous prescriptive rights from 1189 when the legal regime officially began. The Prescription Act 1832 was written hastily as a response to a criticism by Jeremy Bentham, who proposed the complete elimination of common law. It practically supersedes common law prescription but does not actually invalidate it.

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