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This word is applied to the right and enjoyment of a termor or a person having a term, who is said to be possessed, and not seized. … [Read more...] about POSSESSED

To date an instrument a time after that on which it is made. Vide Date. … [Read more...] about POST DATE

Latin: In the civil law. That condition of fact under which one can exercise his power over a corporeal thing at his pleasure, to the exclusion of all others. This condition of fact is called "detention," and It forms the substance of possession in all its varieties. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...] about POSSESSIO

The brother's possession. This is a technical phrase which is applied in the English law relating to descents. By the common law, the ancestor from whom the inheritance was taken by descent, must have had actual seisin of the lands, either by his own entry, or by the possession of his own, or his ancestor's lessee for years, or by being in the receipt of rent from the lessee of … [Read more...] about POSSESSIO FRATRIS

(A) intern. law. By possession is meant a country which is held by no other title than mere conquest. 2. In this sense Possession differs from a dependency, which belongs rightfully to the country which has dominion over it; and from colony, which is a country settled by citizens or subjects of the mother country. 3 Wash. C. C. R. 286. (B) property. The detention or enjoyment … [Read more...] about POSSESSION