International: USUCAPIO: How Governments Avoid, Evade, And Ignore Native Customary Rights

International: USUCAPIO: How Governments Avoid, Evade, And Ignore Native Customary Rights NATIVE CUSTOMARY RIGHTS, as codified and mandated in various laws and constitutions of various countries, are also associated with and related to the doctrine of usucapio, a Latin word meaning "ownership due to lengthened possession." Another leading maxim is qui prior est tempore potior est jure, meaning, “he has the better title who was first in point of time.” The other oft-quoted maxim, at least in...

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