Unuseable

That it is his pleaſure, thus to fufil^([sic]) the purpoſes of his power and his wiſdom, who can doubt! who credits the revelation of his will; or who deny! who looking upon the mighty effects of his word, witneſſes all things incomplete and unuſeable, until ſubjected to the will, and faſhioned by the wit and induſtry of man.

When I entered for inſtance on lord Conyngham’s eſtate, the greater part of the land was in ſo foul and rude a ſtate as to be unuſeable by the Iriſh farmer, for his implements were not able to till it.

Automobiles were mechanically similar, he reasoned. Manufacturers should be encouraged to change design, give them style. And style is what makes everything obsolete before it’s unuseable.

Perhaps the argument in favor of prescriptive easements is weaker than that for adverse possession, because denial of a prescriptive easement need not result in unuseable land, and detecting an easement can be more difficult than recognizing appropriation of the entire parcel itself.