The influence of the publication of rights on the acquisitive prescription has clearly arisen during the Civil Code reform. The legislator had an ambition to confer the publication of rights a probative force that relegates the acquisitive prescription to a second level. This ambitious reform required an immovable property registration. In waiting for its implementation, the transitional provisions suspended the application of the rule which allows the establishment of the system. In 2000, this reform was abandoned and many provisions in the Code were amended and repealed. This new situation leads to a certain confusion about the role of the publication of rights, confusion always perceptible today. At the end of August 2015, the Québec Court of Appeal made a decision that revealed the dangerous relations between publication of rights and acquisitive prescription. A diachronic analysis of this legislative saga will allow a more comprehensive explanation of the different sides of the publication of rights.