Civil possession
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In modern civil law and in the law of Louisiana, that possession which exists when a person ceases to reside in a house or on the land which he occupied, or to detain the movable which he possessed, but without intending to abandon the possession. It is the detention of a thing by virtue of a just title and under the conviction of possessing as owner. Civ. Code La. art.
3391 et seq.