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A right to possess, occupy or otherwise use a parcel of real estate (as opposed to a right claiming title or ownership of real estate.) … [Read more...] about POSSESSORY INTEREST

Latin: Possibility; a possibility. Possibilitas post dissolutionem executionis nunquam reviviscatur, a possibility will never be revived after the dissolution of its execution. 1 Rolle, 321. Post executioncm status, lex non patitur possi-bilitatem, after the execution of an estate the law does not suffer a possibility. 3 Bulst. 108. … [Read more...] about POSSIBILITAS

Testimony that is personally witnessed, either seen or heard. … [Read more...] about POSITIVE EVIDENCE

An uncertain thing which may happen. A contingent interest in real or personal estate. Kinzie v. Winston, 14 Fed. Cas. 651; Bodenhamer v. Welch, 89 N. C. 78; Needles v. Needles, 7 Ohio St. 442, 70 Am. Dec. 85. It is either near, (or ordinary,) as where an estate is limited to one after the death of another, or remote, (or extraordinary,) as where it is limited to a man, … [Read more...] about POSSIBILITY

Law actually and specifically enacted or adopted by proper authority for the government of an organized jural society. "A 'law" in the sense in which that term is employed in jurisprudence, is enforced by a sovereign political authority. It is thus distinguished not only from all rules which, like the principles of morality and the so-called laws of honor and of fashion, are … [Read more...] about POSITIVE LAW