&c 780; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality†,
dependency; villenage, villeinage†; socage†, chivalry, knight service.
exclusive possession, impropriation†, monopoly, retention &c 781;
prepossession, preoccupancy†; nine points of the law; corner,
usucaption†.
future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion,
fee, seigniority†; primogeniture, ultimogeniture†.
futures contract [right of future possession; financial
instruments], warrant, put, call, option; right of first refusal.
bird in hand, uti possidetis [Lat.], chose in possession.
V. possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy; be possessed of &c adj.; have in
hand &c adj.; own &c 780; command.
inherit; come to, come in for.
engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate†, impropriate†, have all to
oneself; corner; have a firmhold of &c (retain) 781 [Obs.]; get into
one's hand &c (acquire) 775.
belong to, appertain to, pertain to; be in one's possession &c
adj.; vest in.
Adj. possessing &c v.; worth; possessed of, seized of, master of, in
possession of; usucapient†; endowed with, blest with, instinct with,
fraught with, laden with, charged with.
possessed &c v.; on hand, by one; in hand, in store, in stock; in
one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession; at one's command, at
one's disposal; one's own &c (property) 780.
unsold, unshared.
Phr. entbehre gern was du nicht hast [G.]; meum et tuum [Lat.]; tuum
est [Lat.].
777a. Exemption — N. exemption; absence &c 187; exception, immunity,
privilege, release.
V. not have &c 777; be without &c adj.; excuse.
Adj. exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of†, unblest with†;
immune from.
not having &c 777; unpossessed†; untenanted &c (vacant) 187;
without an owner.
unobtained†, unacquired.