possession

Roget-categorie 777

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.1. Property in general

#777. Possession

zelfstandig naamwoord

possession, seizin [Law], seisin [Law] — ownership etc. 780 — occupancy — hold, holding — tenure, tenancy, feodality^†, dependency — villenage, villeinage^† — socage^†, chivalry, knight service.
exclusive possession, impropriation^†, monopoly, retention etc. 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.

werkwoord

possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy — be possessed of etc. adj. — have in hand etc. adj. — own etc. 780 — command.
inherit — come to, come in for.
engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate^†, impropriate^†, have all to oneself — corner — have a firmhold of etc. (retain) 781^† — get into one's hand etc. (acquire) 775.
belong to, appertain to, pertain to — be in one's possession etc. adj. — vest in.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

possessing etc. 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 etc. 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 etc. (property) 780.
unsold, unshared.

uitdrukking

entbehre gern was du nicht hast [G.] — meum et tuum [Lat.] — tuum est [Lat.].

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