Possess
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
To occupy In person; to have in one's actual and physical control; to have the exclusive detention and control of; also to own or be entitled to.
See Fuller v. Fuller, 84 Me. 475, 24 Atl. 946; Brantly v. Kee, 58 N. C. 337.