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proscription
The acquisition of title to real property by one who openly and continuously is in adverse possession of it for a period sufficiently long that the statute of limitations bars the previous owner from reclaiming it (usually 20 years).


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Three judges led by Lord Phillips, the lord chief justice, refused Smith leave to contest a decision by the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission last year that to proscribe the group was "perverse".
Lord Goldsmith argued: "It is inconceivable that the Terrorism Act 2000 was intended to no longer proscribe an organisation which had previously been proscribed.
 
 
 
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