n.a characteristic of ownership that makes property nontransferable due to the owner’s absolute title to the possessionICA 1995The inalienability and imprescriptibility of public records ¶ National laws agree in conferring the status of inalienable and imprescriptible public property on public records. The alienation of public archives can therefore only occur through a legislative act of the State which created item.Montgomery 2015, 291It defined “imprescriptibility” as meaning that the sovereign state has the perpetual right of replevin or return over its public documents, which are inalienable. As such, the inalienability and imprescriptibility principles are considered inseparable and indivisible.Mosweu and Simon 2018, 75Inalienability and imprescriptibility of public records and archives - The National Archives should have the right to inspect, replevin, recover and instruct protection of public records which are or believed to be estrays through an established mechanism.
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As it pertains to public records, imprescriptability means that records remain permanently subject to replevin because they are inalienable public property.
