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Self possession

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Self possessed

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Evolutility

The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form of volume or of structure

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Uses

the Common Law, as it would have been absurd to give possession by livery of seisin to one's self. This was found to be convenient, especially in the following example: It frequently happened that upon the death … said that the statute contemplated freeholds only, and therefore employed the word SEISED; now a tenant is only possessed of a leasehold for years. but the use declared upon a feoffment, etc., might be of a term

repossess

repossess : to regain possession of ;esp : to take possession of again by judicial process or self-help upon default of the payment of installments due compare foreclose, seize re·pos·ses·sor [-ze-sər] n … repossess : to regain possession of ;esp : to take possession of again by judicial process or self-help upon default of the payment

Collectedness

A collected state of the mind self possession … A collected state of the mind self possession

Composed

Free from agitation calm sedate quiet tranquil self possessed

Cleistogamic

plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self fertilization … flowers other minute closed flowers without petals or with minute petals said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self fertilization

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Ireland, Court of Session in Scotland, and not more than seven judges of the superior courts of the self-governing Colonies (or other possession fixed by Order in Council), and not more than two judges of any High … in Scotland, and not more than seven judges of the superior courts of the self-governing Colonies (or other possession fixed by Order in Council), and not more than two judges of any High Court in India as

Self luminous

Matched in: Term Self luminous

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