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Possessory Action

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Possessory action, the action of trespass, the gist of which is the injury to the possession; a plaintiff, therefore, cannot maintain it, unless at the moment of the injury he was in actual, or constructive, and exclusive possession.

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