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Acquisitive prescription. Definition - : acquisition of ownership or other real rights in movables or immovables by continuous, uninterrupted, peaceable, public, and unequivocal possession for a period of time (as 10 years) set by law. (Lawyers.com)

'Extinctive prescription' refers to the extinction of a right or claim due to a time lapse. The notion of extinctive prescription encourages claimants to pursue claims with due expedition and in a manner that does not unduly prejudice a defendant in its defence. (International Law Office)

Prescription: A method of acquiring or extinguishing rights through the inaction of the legal owner.

Mostly a civil law term, the common law equivalent being statute of limitations or just limitations. (Duhaime's Law Dictionary)

The GP had told them that if a patient needed drugs urgently he would write out a prescription in the patient's name, collect it from the pharmacy, then take it round to the patient. (BBC)