Occupant
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
One who has the actual use or possession of a thing.
See Lechler v. Chapin, 12 Nev. G5.
When the occupiers of a house are entitled to a privilege in consequence of such occupation, as to pass along a way, to enjoy a pew, and the like, a person who occupies a part of such house, however small, is entitled to some right, and cannot be deprived of it; 2 B. & Aid. 104; 1 Cliitty, Pr. 209; 4 Comyns, Dig. G4; 5 id.
199. See Fleming v. Maddox, 30 la. 242; 3 Q. B. 449.
0 CCU PAT 10. “The advisedly taking possession of that which is at the moment the, property of no man, with a view of acquiring property in it for yourself.”
Maine, Anc. L. 245.
The advised assumption of physical possession.
Id. 250.