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Illegally acquired properties
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possession
a lack of legal title] 2 : direct physical custody, care, or control of property or contraband (as illegal drugs) [actual possession is not necessary to sustain a conviction "State v. Garrison, 896 S.W.2d 689 (1995)"] adverse … the possessor if carried out for a specified statutory period (as ten years) ;also : the method of acquiring title by such possession see also hostile possession and notorious possession in this entry compare prescription civil possession
Forfeiture
Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), s. 1, land assured to or acquired by or on behalf of any corporation in mortmain otherwise than under a licence under the Crown or … was replaced and extended by s. 146 of the (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925. By this section, before proceeding to enforce a forfeiture, the … or crime, 'to incur a penalty'. 'Forefeiture', as judicially annotated, is 'a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence.....', 'something imposed as a punishment for an offence or delinquency, R.S. Joshi v. Ajit Mills
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