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Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

The taking possession of things which previously belonged to no one.

See 86 Iowa, 71, 41 Am. St. Rep. 481, 17 L. R. A. 788, 52 N. W. 1124.