TO ACQUIRE, descents, contracts. To make property one's own.
2. Title to property is acquired in two ways, by descent, (q.v.) and by
purchase (q.v.). Acquisition by purchase, is either by, 1. Escheat. 2.
Occupancy. 3. Prescription. 4. Forfeiture. 5. Alienation, which is either by
deed or by matter of record. Things which cannot be sold, cannot be
acquired.