Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section IV. Possessive Relations
1. Property in general

777. Possession.

   NOUN:POSSESSION, seizin or seisin; ownership [See Property]; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, feodatory, feud or feod, fief, fee, fee tail, fee simple; dependency; villenage or villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service.
  bird in hand, uti possidetis [L.], chose in possession [rare].
  EXCLUSIVE POSSESSION, impropriation, monopoly, retention [See Retention]; prepossession, preoccupancy; nine points of the law; corner, usucapion or usucaption [Rom. law], prescription.
  FUTURE POSSESSION, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee; primogeniture, ultimogeniture.
   VERB:POSSESS, have, hold, occupy, enjoy; be possessed of &c. adj.; have in hand &c. adj.; own [See Property]; command.
  INHERIT; come to, come in for.
  MONOPOLIZE, engross, forestall, regrate, impropriate, appropriate, usucapt [Rom. law], have all to oneself; corner; have a firm hold of (retain) [See Retention]; get into one’s hand (acquire) [See Acquisition].
  BELONG TO, appertain to, pertain to; be in one’s possession &c. adj.; vest in.
   ADJECTIVE:POSSESSING &c. v.; worth; possessed of, seized of, master of, usucapient [Rom. law]; in possession of; endowed -, blest -, instinct -, fraught -, laden -, charged- with.
  POSSESSED &c. v.; on hand, by one; in hand, in store, in stock; unsold, unshared; in one’s -hands, – grasp, – possession; at one’s command, at one’s disposal; one’s own (property) [See Property].
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Entbehre gern was du nicht hast.
2. Meum et tuum; tuum est.
3. Possession is eleven points in the law.—Cibber