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1688 Acct. Late Proposals Archbishop of Canterbury in G. Burnet Coll. Papers 10 Upon the Restoration of Corporations to their Ancient Charters, and Burroughs to their Prescriptive Rights, He would Order Writs to be issued out for a fair and free Parliament.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxxii. 494 Lords of manors..who have to this day a prescriptive right to grant administration to their intestate tenants and suitors.

1782 E. Burke Speech Motion to reform Representation of Commons in Wks. (1812) X. 96 Our constitution is a prescriptive constitution; it is a constitution, whose sole authority is, that it has existed time out of mind.

1842 Sydney Morning Herald 1 Aug. 1/3 Have the Aboriginal Blacks such a prescriptive right to the soil of Australia as to have been extinguished by the occupancy of Europeans?

1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 182 The ancient holiday, to which the scholars believed they had acquired a prescriptive title from immemorial usage.

1927 W. M. Gloag & R. C. Henderson Introd. Law Scotl. 132 A title may be fortified by prescriptive possession although the adverse right was a grant by the possessor himself or his predecessor in title.

1984 New Yorker 24 Dec. 33/2 There already existed, as access to the land, something known as prescriptive easement: a road to the house had been used by the people who lived there for years.