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“In law prescription is of two kinds: it is either an instrument for the acquisition of property or an instrument of an exemption solely from the servitude of judicial process.”1

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© 1965 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Blum, Y.Z. (1965). Prescription in International Law. In: Historic Titles in International Law. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0699-1_2

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