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

779. Possessor.

   NOUN:POSSESSOR, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person or man in possession [See Possession]; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee; zamindar or zemindar [India]; ryot [India]; tenant -on sufferance, – at will, – from year to year, – for years, – for life.
  OWNER; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator, master, mistress, lord.
  LANDHOLDER, landowner, landlord, landlady; lord -of the manor, – paramount; heritor [Scots law], laird [Scot.], vavasor or vavasour [feud. law]; landed gentry, mesne lord; planter.
  BENEFICIARY, cestui que (or qui) trust [law], mortgagor.
  GRANTEE, feoffee, feoffee in trust, releasee, devisee; legatee, legatary [rare].
  TRUSTEE; holder &c. of the legal estate; mortgagee.
  right owner, rightful owner.
  [FUTURE POSSESSOR] heir, – apparent, – presumptive; inheritor, reversioner; remainder-man; heiress, inheritress, inheritrix.
   QUOTATION:’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands.—Othello