Constructive possession
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Possession not actual but assumed to exist, where one claims to hold by virtue of some title, without having the actual occu-pahey, as, where the owner of a tract of land, regularly laid out, is in possession of a part, he is constructively in possession of the whole.
Fleming v. Maddox, 30 Iowa, 241.