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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

Fr. In English law, as in most systems of jurisprudence, the fact of possession raises a prima facie title or a presumption of the right of property In the thing possessed. In other words, the possession is as good as the title (about.) Brown. … [Read more...] about POSSESSION VATUT TITRE

One who possesses; one who has possession. Possessor bona fide. He is a bona fide .possessor who possesses as owner by virtue of an act sufficient in terms to transfer property, the defects of which he was ignorant of. He ceases to be a bona fide possessor from the moment these defects are made known to him, or are declared to him by a suit instituted for the recovery of the … [Read more...] about POSSESSOR

Relating to possession; founded On possession; contemplating or claiming possession. Possessory action. See next title. Possessory claim. The title of a pre-emptor of public lands who has filed his declaratory statement but has not 'paid for the land. Enoch v. Pofcaue Falls & N. Ry. Co., 6 Wash. 393, 33 ac. 966. Possessory judgment. In Scotch practice. A judgment which … [Read more...] about POSSESSORY