In law, time immemorial refers to “a period of time beyond which legal memory cannot extend” and “time out of the heart.” [2] The term “time immemorial” appears most often as a legal term of art in legal discussions on the development of common law and in the United States on the property rights of Native Americans. [3] [4] [5] Also time out of mind. Long ago, beyond memory or memory, as in These ruins have stood here since time immemorial, or His office was out of mind on Madison Avenue for the time. The first term comes from English law, where it means “beyond legal memory”, especially before the reign of Richard I (1189-1199), which was established as the legal limit for certain types of trials. Around 1600, it was extended to its current feeling of “a very long time ago”. The variant, first recorded in 1432, uses the mind in the sense of “memory” or “recall”. Violence or threats of violence should never affect the actions or judgments of the university community. Once that is the case, the community almost ceases by definition to be a university. For this reason, expulsion has always been the main instrument of academic discipline. “Unthinkable time Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20immemorial. Retrieved 6 November 2022.

You see, Crown lands are lands stolen from Indigenous peoples who have been here since time immemorial and will continue to be here as custodians of the land. Sometimes we have to take the blame, women, we have to recognize that women have always done everything to make themselves attractive. This ship, I tell you, came to England at the time of the reign of the good King Athelstan; he then made halls as well as arbors and sublime temples of great honor, to take his rest day and night and worship his God with all his strength. This dear God loved this craft very much and intended to strengthen it in all parts, due to various shortcomings he had discovered in craftsmanship. He sent the whole country, after all the masons of handicrafts, to come to him immediately, and to remedy all these shortcomings by good advice, if it were so. Then he allowed an assembly of various lords of rank, dukes, counts and barons, also knights, squires, and many others, and the great citizens of this city, they were all there in their degree; They were there, each in every way, to enact laws for the succession of these masons. There they sought by their wisdom how to govern it; There they found fifteen items, and there they scored fifteen points. Time immémorial (French: temps immémorial) is an expression meaning time that extends beyond the reach of memory, recording or tradition, indefinitely old, “old beyond memory or record”. In law, this means that a property or benefit has been valued for so long that its owner does not have to prove how it came into possession. In English law and its derivatives, “time immemorial” means the same thing as “time out of mind”, “a time before legal history and beyond legal memory”.

In 1275, the first Statute of Westminster limited the period of commemoration to the reign of King Richard I, from 6 July 1189, the date of the accession of the king. Since that date, proof of uninterrupted possession or use of a right has, in certain circumstances, rendered proof of initial grant unnecessary. The Limitation Act of 1832, which stipulated that the full expression was “time immemorial or time in which the memory of man does not exclude”, replaced the usual legal burden of proving “time immemorial” for the enjoyment of certain land rights with fixed statutory periods of up to 60 years. “Aboriginal title” describes the land rights that Native Americans have over the lands they occupied continuously and exclusively for a long time before the invasion of other inhabitants. [5] When claiming or establishing Aboriginal title, claimant tribes and courts sometimes describe their settlement as a “period of time immemorial.” [14] The date of the coronation of King Richard I. (Richard the Lionheart) was established in English law by law in Parliament summoned by King Edward I to Westminster in the third year of his reign.