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Possession :: Possession (n.) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful..

Purse-proud :: Purse-proud (a.) Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

Livery :: Livery (n.) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

Secundo-geniture :: Secundo-geniture (n.) A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.

Taking :: Taking (n.) The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.

Consign :: Consign (v. t.) To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave..

Admittance :: Admittance (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.

Wealthy :: Wealthy (superl.) Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich..

Peculiarity :: Peculiarity (n.) Exclusive possession or right.

Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate..

Return :: Return (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.

Peculiarize :: Peculiarize (v. t.) To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession..

Peculiar :: Peculiar (a.) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation..

Having :: Having (n.) Possession; goods; estate.

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition..

Foretaste :: Foretaste (v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.

Fee :: Fee (n.) property; possession; tenure.

Remitter :: Remitter (n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit..

Diabolism :: Diabolism (n.) Possession by the devil.

Deforciant :: Deforciant (n.) One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.

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