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)
