possessory
- adjective
- /pəˈzɛsəri/
- Specialized
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posesorio
- Jennings also said that individual Cherokees held possessory rights to all but about 8,000 of the more than 56,000 acres on the reservation.
- possessory interest
Examples
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The court ruled that the tenants had a strong possessory right to the apartment they had lived in for many years.
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In describing the defendant's constitutional standing, the Court stated that they asserted neither a property nor a possessory interest in the automobile, nor an interest in the property seized.
Academic text (2017) -
Such "improvements" yielded the landholder a possessory right that could be sold or used as a basis for obtaining title (although most frontier settlers in the past failed to register their land).
Academic text (2002) -
The different sects who claim possessory interests in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre jealously guard every inch of "title," every presumption of customary privilege they can.
Academic text (1996) -
She was concerned about her possessory interest in the land, as it directly affected her ability to build a new home.
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Lawyers often discuss possessory rights when determining who can control or own specific assets.
Synonyms
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Acting as if you own something or control it
Relating to the rights and rules for holding land or property
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Possessory comes from the same root as possess and possession, which mean 'to have' or 'to own'. So a possessory right is about actually having or controlling something, which is why the word is used for legal ownership and control of property.