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TO ACQUIRE


TO ACQUIRE, descents, contracts. To make property one's own. 2. Title to property is acquired in two ways, by descent, (q.v.) and bypurchase (q.v.). Acquisition by purchase, is either by, 1. Escheat. 2.Occupancy. 3. Prescription. 4. Forfeiture. 5. Alienation, which is either bydeed or by matter of record. Things which cannot be sold, cannot beacquired.

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