# Prescription (Law) { "id": "S85106434", "title": "Prescription (Law)", "url": "/topics/S85106434", "kind": "topic-directory", "aeo_cohort": "topic-directory", "provider": "lcsh", "revision": "fce3445ba225f804", "catalogue_revision": "f050b5d4780b1289", "numeric_address": "288441757333865984", "address_version": "morton4x16-v1", "coordinates": [ 0, 20, 19068, 2048 ], "answer_status": "Directory metadata; local answer requires separate source review", "truth_status": "Subject descriptor, not a factual answer or a demonstrated knowledge gap" } Here are entered works on prescription as a mode of acquiring title to incorporeal hereditaments by immemorial or long continued enjoyment, and the so-called positive, or acquisitive, prescription of Civil law. Works on the so-called negative, or extinctive, prescription of Civil law are entered under [Limitation of actions.] Directory metadata is not a factual answer or evidence of a global knowledge gap. Source: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106434 No owner-reviewed local answer yet.