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—­ emphasize the abstract meaning of possession — legal possession, as a distinct entity from physical possession, stewardship —­

     #777.  Possession.—­ N. possession, seizin[Law], seisin[Law]; ownership
&c. 780; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality[obs3], dependency; villenage, villeinage[obs3]; socage[obs3], chivalry, knight service.
     exclusive possession, impropriation[obs3], monopoly, retention &c.781;
prepossession, preoccupancy[obs3]; nine points of the law; corner, usucaption[obs3].
     future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee,
seigniority[obs3]; primogeniture, ultimogeniture[obs3].
      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[obs3], impropriate[obs3], have
all to oneself; corner; have a firmhold of &c. (retain) 781[obs3]; 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[obs3]; 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[Ger]; 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[obs3], unblest
with[obs3]; immune from.
     not having &c. 777; unpossessed[obs3]; untenanted &c. (vacant) 187;
without an owner.
     unobtained[obs3], unacquired.

     #778. [Joint possession.] Participation.—­ N. participation;
cotenancy[obs3], joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation &c. 709.
     snacks, coportion|, picnic, hotchpot[obs3]; co-heirship, co-
parceny[obs3], co-parcenary; gavelkind[obs3].
     participator, sharer; co-partner, partner; shareholder; co-tenant,
joint tenant; tenants in common; co-heir, co-parcener[obs3].
     communist, socialist. 
     V. participate, partake; share, share in; come in for a share; go