incorporeal rights造句

• Perhaps the doctrine has best been stated by Parke, B ., in " Bright v Walker ", who says, at page 217 :  For a series of years prior to the passing of this Act ( the Prescription Act 1832 ) judges had been in the habit, for the furtherance of justice and the sake of peace, to leave it to juries to presume a grant from a long exercise of an incorporeal right, adopting the period of twenty years by analogy to the Statute of Limitations.