Sentence examples for prescriptive right from inspiring English sources

"I was very disappointed," she admits, "but no one has a prescriptive right to go there.

If a hedge merely obstructs your light and its branches do not overhang your property, you probably cannot force your neighbour to do anything about it unless there is a prescriptive right to light - that is one acquired through uninterrupted use over 20 years.

It's a prescriptive right of way.

Before this match-up is over, it certainly would be wonderful to see some Celtic -- perhaps "Big Baby" Davis -- flying headlong into Jack Nicholson, who apparently has the prescriptive right to walk on the court whenever he wishes.

However, Scott claimed prescriptive rights to the McMurdo Sound area, describing it as his own "field of work", and Shackleton's use of the area as a base was in breach of an undertaking not to do so.

Recently, other health care professions have also been gaining prescriptive rights.

It's hard to be prescriptive about the right kind of experience for a freelance career in science public relations.

Prescribing rights (prescriptive authority) for PAs in the NHS have been highlighted by many commentators as an essential requirement of PA role.

He also recognises the personality-transcending nature of sex – at least if, and I don't want to be prescriptive, you're doing it right.

It threatens to take us away from the joys of running and right back into prescriptive ideas about how women should look, act and perform.

However, unlike adverse possession a prescriptive easement only gives a right of use, not ownership, over the real estate.