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Indwell :: Indwell (v. t. & i.) To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner..

Prepossession :: Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood..

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands..

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate..

Monopoly :: Monopoly (n.) Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land..

Acquisitiveness :: Acquisitiveness (n.) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

Disseize :: Disseize (v. t.) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold..

Predilection :: Predilection (n.) A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.

Proprietor :: Proprietor (n.) One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill..

Encyclopedism :: Encyclopedism (n.) The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning..

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) A hypothecation without transfer of possession.

Disappropriate :: Disappropriate (v. t.) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.

Possession :: Possession (n.) The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession..

Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

Secularization :: Secularization (n.) The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property..

Patent :: Patent (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines..

Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession..

Intercommunity :: Intercommunity (n.) Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc..

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