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CHAPTER FOURTH CERTAIN THINGS IMPRESCRIPTIBLE AND OF PRIVILEGED PRESCRIPTIONS

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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CHAPTER FOURTH
CERTAIN THINGS IMPRESCRIPTIBLE AND OF PRIVILEGED PRESCRIPTIONS

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    2075.   The Crown may avail itself of prescription. The subject may interrupt such prescription by means of a petition of right, apart from the cases in which the law gives another remedy.

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    Among privileged persons, the privilege takes effect in the matter of prescription.

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    2076.   The rights of the Crown with regard to sovereignty and allegiance are imprescriptible.

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    2077.   Prescription does not run in respect of the Cinquante Pas de la Reine, sea-beaches, and lands reclaimed from the sea, ports, rivers, their banks, and the wharfs, works, and roads connected with them, public lands, and generally all immovable property and real rights forming part of the domain of the Crown.

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    2078.   The rights of the Crown to the principal of rents, dues, and revenues owing and payable to it, and to the capital sums accruing from the alienation or from the use of Crown property, are also imprescriptible.

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    2079.   All arrears of rents, dues, interest, and revenues, and all debts and rights belonging to the Crown, not declared to be imprescriptible by the preceding articles, are prescribed by 30 years.

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    Subsequent purchasers of immovable property charged therewith cannot be liberated by any shorter period.

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    2080.   Positive prescription of corporeal immovables, and negative prescription as regards the principal of rents and dues, legacies and rights of hypothec, take place against the church in the same manner and according to the same rules as against private persons.

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    Purchasers with title and good faith prescribe against the church by 10 years, whether positively or negatively, in the same way as against private persons.

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    Positive prescription of corporeal movables and the other negative prescriptions, including that of capital sums, take place against the church as against private persons.

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    2081.   Roads, streets, wharfs, landing-places, squares, markets, and other places of a like nature, possessed for the general use of the public, cannot be acquired by prescription, so long as their destination has not been changed otherwise than by tolerating the encroachment.

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    2082.   Any other property belonging to municipalities or corporations, the prescription of which is not otherwise determined by this Code, is subject to the same prescriptions as the property of private persons.

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