Capable of existing or hap-peniug; feasible. . in another sense, the word denotes extreme improbability, without excluding the idea of feasibility. It is also sometimes equivalent to “practicable” or “reasonable,” as in some cases where action is required to be taken “as soon as possible.” See Palmer v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 44 wis. 208
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Lat. Possibility; a possibility. Posgibilitas post dissolutionem exeeutioni* nunquam reviviscatur, a possi-bility will never be revived after the dissolu-tlon 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
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An uncertain thing which may happen. A contingent interest in real or personal estate. Kinzle v. win-ston; 14 Fed. Cas. 651; Bodenhamer ‘ v. welch, 89 N. C. 78; Needles v. Needles, 7 ohio St. 442, 70 Am. Dec. 85
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Relating to possession; founded on possession; contemplating ‘or claiming possession
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An action which has for its immediate object to obtain -or recover the actual possession ot the sub-ject-matter; as distinguished from an action which merely seeks to vindicate the plain-tiff’s title, or which involves the bare right only; the latter being called a “petitory” action
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The detention and con-trol, or the manual or ideal custody, of any-thlng which may be the subject of property, for one’s use and enjoyment, either as owner or as the proprietor of a qualified right in it, and either held personally or by another who exercises it in one’s place and name. That condition of facts under which one can exer-cise his power over a corporeal thing at his pleasure to the exclusion of all other per-sons. See Staton v. Mullis, 92 N. C. 632; Sunol v. Hepburn, 1 Cal. 263; Cox v. Devin-ney, 65 N. J. Law, 389, 47 Atl. 570; Churchill v. onderdonk, 59 N. Y. 136; Rice v. Frayser (C. C.) 24 Fed. 460; Travers v. McElvaiu, 181 111. 382, 55 N. E. 135; Einmerson v. State, 33 Tex. Cr. R. 89, 25 S. W. 289; Slater v. Rawson, 6 Metc. (Mass.) 444
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
To occupy in person; to have in one’s actual and physical control; to have
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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 pos-sessed, and not seised. Bac. Tr. 335; Poph. 76; Dyer, 369
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Lat. of positive law. “That was a rule positivi juris; I do not mean to say an unjust one.” Lord Ellen-borough, 12 East, 639
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Lat. A possibility. A thing is said to he in posse when it may possibly be; in esse when it actually is
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Laid down, enacted, or prescribed. Express- or affirmative. Direct, absolute, explicit
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Law actually and specifically enacted or adopted by proper authority for tbe government of an organized jaral society
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In old English law. An auction; a public sale’of goods to tbe highest bidder; also a sale of fish as soon as it is brought into tbe haven. Cowell
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In old English law. A court held in ports or haven towns, and
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In the civU law. Duties paid in ports on merchandise. Taxes levied in old times at city gates. Tolls for passing over bridges
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one who receives a por-tion; the allottee of a portion, one of two or more Incumbents of the same ecclesiastical benefice
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The burgesses of Ipswlcb and of the Cinque .Ports were so called
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Lat in the civil law. The birthright portion; that portion of an lnherltance to which a given heir is entitled, and of which he cannot be deprived by the will of the decedent, without special cause, by virtue merely of . hls relationship to the testator
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The share faillng to a child from a parent’s estate or the estate of any one bearing a similar relation. State v. Crossley, 69 Ind. 209; Lewis’s Appeal, 108 Pa. 136; In re Miller’s will, 2 Lea (Tenn.) 57
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)