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actual possession

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Noun1.actual possessionactual possession - (law) immediate and direct physical control over property
possession, ownership - the act of having and controlling property
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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The States within the limits of whose colonial governments they were comprised have claimed them as their property, the others have contended that the rights of the crown in this article devolved upon the Union; especially as to all that part of the Western territory which, either by actual possession, or through the submission of the Indian proprietors, was subjected to the jurisdiction of the king of Great Britain, till it was relinquished in the treaty of peace.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
The nearest that I came to actual possession was when I bought the Hollowell place, and had begun to sort my seeds, and collected materials with which to make a wheelbarrow to carry it on or off with; but before the owner gave me a deed of it, his wife -- every man has such a wife -- changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
To some it seemed that, now that they were in actual possession of it, freedom was a more serious thing than they had expected to find it.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
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