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intransitive. Of a right or claim: to cease to be valid following the expiry of a prescribed period of time, to lapse by prescription of time; = pres…
intransitive. Scots Law. Of an action: to suffer prescription (prescription, n.1 1); to lapse, to become invalid or void through passage of time…