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To possess corporally, to be vested with possession. “No one, at common law, was said to have or to be in possession of land, unless it were conveyed to him by the livery of seisin, which gave him the corporal investiture and bodily occupation thereof.” BL Law Tracts, 113. Have and hold. A common phrase in conveyancing, derived from the habendum et tenendum of the old common law. See HABENDUM ET TENENDUM. These words are used in deeds for the conveyance of land, in that clause which usually declared for what estate the land is granted. The same as Habendum. Vide Habendum; Tenendum.