Actual possession
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 575 U.S. 622 - Henderson v. United States · 2015Most cited · 17 citing opinions
a person has direct physical control over a thing.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
This term, as used in the provisions of Rev. St. N. Y. p. 312, § 1, authorizing proceedings to compel the determination of claims to reni property, means a possession in fact effected by actual entry upon the premises; an actual occupation. Churchill v. Onderdonk, 59 N. Y. 134. It means an actual occupation or possession in fact, as contradistinguished from that constructive one which the legal title draws after it. The word "actual" is used in the statute in opposition to virtual or constructive, and calls for an open, visible occupancy. Cleveland v. Crawford, 7 Hun (N. Y.) 616.
Defined under Possession in Black's Law Dictionary.