user, general and long continued.... This, we think, is amply sufficient to show an acceptance by the public of the congressional grant ...."), rev’d on other grounds, 78 Neb. 284, 112 N.W. 902 (1907). 23 . "User” is the "enjoyment of a right of use: a right to use resulting from long-continued use.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 2524 (1976); see Black's Law Dictionary 1542 (7th ed.1999) (defining "user” as "[t]he exercise or employment of a right or property”). We will use the terms "user” and "continuous public use” interchangeably. 24 . See, e.g., Vogler v. Anderson, 46 Wash. 202, 89 P. 551, 552 (1907); City of Butte v. Mikosowitz, 39 Mont. 350, 102 P. 593, 595 (1909). 25 . See Powell, supra, at n. 107; Okanogan County v. Cheetham, 37 Wash. 682, 80 P. 262, 264 (1905) (<HOLDING>). 26 . See Powell, supra, at n. 105; Hatch
holding that an easement by prescription may be obtained against the holder of a present interest but that that prescriptive easement is subject to divestment if and when the property passes to the holder of a future interest holding a common law dedication keeps the fee vested in the donor burdened with an easement over the way in question and subject to the acceptance of the easement by the public holding that seven years of public use is sufficient to constitute acceptance of an rs 2477 right of way as opposed to the ten years required for an easement by prescription on the ground that it is not a matter of prescription but of acceptance of a grant holding that a common law presumption of death is triggered after an absence of seven years holding that an easement cannot be created in favor of an estate for years extending beyond the life of the estate