Prescription Act 1832
[1.] Claims to right of common and other profits a prendre,not to be defeated after thirty years enjoyment by merely showing the commencement; after sixty years enjoyment the right to be absolute, unless had by consent or agreement.
2 In claims of right of way or other easement the periods to be twenty years and forty years.
3 Claim to the use of light enjoyed for 20 years.
4 Before mentioned periods to be deemed those next before suits.
5 In actions on the case, the claimant may allege his right generally, as at present. In pleas to trespass and certain other pleadings, the period mentioned in this Act may be alleged. Exceptions, &c. to be replied to specially.
6 Presumption to be allowed in claims herein provided for.
7 Proviso for infants, &c.
8 What time to be excluded in computing the term of forty years appointed by this Act.
8AExclusion of time because of mediation in certain cross-border disputes
9 Limitation.
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Prescription Act 1832

1832 c.71

An Act for shortening the time of prescription in certain cases.

C1C2C3C4Whereas the expression “time immemorial, or time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary,” is now by the Law of England in many cases considered to include and denote the whole period of time from the Reign of King Richard the First, whereby the title to matters that have been long enjoyed is sometimes defeated by shewing the commencement of such enjoyment, which is in many cases productive of inconvenience and injustice;

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Short title “The Prescription Act 1832” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

C4

This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland