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Lawful possession

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Possession is nine points of the law

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Seizin

Possession possession of an estate of froehold It may be either in deed or in law the former when

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Efficacious

Possessing the quality of being effective productive of or powerful to produce the effect intended as an efficacious law

Lawful, Legal

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Uses

an obligation to deal with them in a special manner indicated by the feoffor. The indication might be lawful or it might be a special trust unlawful, which was created for fradulent purposes, so as to defraud … all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin,

Possession

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Remainder

from the Common Law. In the same land there may at the same time be an estate in possession, and one estate or several estates in remainder, and an estate in reversion. When the estate in possession

Forcible detainer

of the Crown, 4 Bl. Com. 148. The wrongful retention of possession of property by one originally in lawful possession, often with threats or actual use of violence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

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but a mere possession only it arises when a person after his right to the occupation, under a lawful title, is at an end, continues (having no title at all) in possession of the land, without the

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