Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and
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Prescription Act, 1969 (Act No. 68 of 1969)Chapter I : Acquisition of Ownership by Prescription1. Acquisition of ownership by prescription |
Subject to the provisions of this Chapter and of Chapter IV, a person shall by prescription become the owner of a thing which he has possessed openly and as if he were the owner thereof for an uninterrupted period of thirty years or for a period which, together with any periods for which such thing was so possessed by his predecessors in title, constitutes an uninterrupted period of thirty years.