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Dispossession, Voluntary giving up of possession does not amount to dispossession unless the law provides for it. 'Dispossess' according to Black's Law Dictionary means: 'To oust from land by legal process; to eject, to exclude from realty.' The dispossession should have been, therefore, either by legal process or by physical act of exclusion, Thondiram Tatoba Kadam v. Ram chandra Balwantrao Dubal, (1994) 3 SCC 366.

Dispossession, occurs where a person come in and drives out the others from possession, Buckinghamshire County Council v. Moran, (1990) Ch 623.

That an uncompleted contract for the sale of charity land was not a 'disposition' of that land for the purpose of s. 36(1) and (2) of the 1993 Act; that s. 37(4) could only validate a disposition to which s. 36(1) or (2) applied......... deputy Judge, Boyoumi v. Women's Total Abstinence Educational Union Ltd., (2004) 2 WLR 181 [Charities Act, 1993 (C 10), ss. 36, 37(4)].