Law. [a. F. user to USE, or inferred from NON-USER. Cf. the earlier ABUSER2, DISUSER.] Continued use, exercise, or enjoyment of a right, etc.; presumptive right arising from use.
1835. Crompton, Meeson & Roscoe, Rep. Cases, I. 418, marg. No right having been acquired by user or length of possession.
1858. Ld. St. Leonards, Handy-bk. Prop. Law, xxv. 191. That there should be an user proved every year during the period.
1888. Pall Mall G., 29 Feb., 1/1. An open space in which the public has an uninterrupted right of user for purposes of public meeting.
transf. 1875. Blackmore, Alice Lorraine, II. xvi. 207. A crust of mud, as if some underground duct were anxious to maintain user of its right of way.
attrib. 1897. Westm. Gaz., 16 June, 4/2. In which [judgement] there was only one slight reference to the user question.
