Possession is the retention or enjoyment of a thing or a right which we hold or which we exercise by ourselves, or by another who holds it or who exercises it in our name. In order to be able to prescribe, there is required possession continual and uninterrupted, peaceable, public, unequivocal, and under the title of proprietor. A party is always presumed to possess for himself, and under the title of proprietor, unless it be proved that he commenced his possession for another. Where a person has commenced his possession in right of others, he is always presumed to possess by the same title, if there be no contrary proof. Acts of pure license and simple toleration can lay no foundation either for possession or prescription.
Acts of violence can lay no better ground for a possession capable of operating prescription.
Useful possession does not commence until violence has ceased. In order to complete prescription, the party may join to his own possession that of his predecessor, in whatsoever manner he may have succeeded to him, whether by universal or particular title, or by lucrative or chargeable title. Of the Causes which prevent Prescription. They who possess in right of others can never prescribe by any lapse of time whatsoever. Thus the farmer, the depositary, the usufructuary, and all others who hold by precarious title the property of the proprietor, are incapable of prescribing for it.